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In physics, power is the rate at which energy is transferred, used, or transformed. The unit of power is the joule per second (J/s), known as the watt (in honor of James Watt, the eighteenth-century ...

Two decades after the Chernobyl accident, Tony Goddard believes that nuclear power must continue to be used to generate electricity Exactly 20 years ago this month, on 21 April 1986, workers at the ...

Taken from the March 2021 issue of Physics World, where it first appeared under the headline "Rethinking nuclear for a greener planet" Troels Schönfeldt, co-founder and chief executive of Danish start ...

EI demands new competencies across power electronics, device physics, real-time optimisation, thermal modelling and embedded ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The strange behavior of quantum physics might seem too unpredictable to rely on for our energy ...