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12.01.2010, 10:14
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The Russian government plans to allocate millions of dollars to develop a spacecraft propelled by nuclear power. The proposed design could provide the only feasible way to travel to Mars.
12.11.2009, 14:36
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On Thursday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev delivered his second address to the nation’s parliament, The Federal Assembly. He touched on urgent problems society currently faces, and spoke of pragmatic solutions.
05.05.2010, 08:48
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A giant funnel is being built in the Gulf of Mexico to channel the oil spill from the seabed to surface. But since there is no guarantee it will work, Russian experts think Soviet history may offer a radical solution.
21.08.2010, 09:55
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The Russian-built nuclear power plant in Iran’s Bushehr is an economic project and has nothing to do with politics, analyst Sergey Pereslegin has told RT.
22.05.2009, 08:51
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Britain could start seeing blackouts as early as 2016 if building new power capacity is not started immediately. But the government’s plans to build new atomic power stations are being thwarted by safety fears.
29.08.2009, 09:32
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Sixty years ago, the USSR tested its first atomic bomb. Now the proving ground stands as a reminder of the ambitious project that turned Russia into a major nuclear force.
10.10.2009, 07:44
Circus entrepreneur and the "first clown in space", Guy Laliberte has put on a show that was literally out of this world. The space tourist directed a performance dedicated to the problem of water shortages on Earth.
16.10.2009, 11:51
An inspection at a French nuclear research center has found 14 kilograms of plutonium which shouldn’t have been there, according to papers. The stock was three times bigger than it was supposed to.
26.04.2010, 09:29
The worst man-made disaster the world has ever known is being remembered on Monday. 24 years ago, one of the reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded, leading to tragedy.
Chernobyl
29.05.2009, 10:10
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There are only two space mission control centers in the world. One of them is in Russia’s town of Korolev in Moscow region. This is where Earth connects to orbit, to the cosmonauts and astronauts working at the ISS.
Published: 01 April, 2009, 13:10
People in the US State of Virginia have been left mystified by explosions and flashes of light in the sky. Some claim it was only a meteor shower – but others think there's something else behind the light show.
