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《科学美国人》 第334卷 第4期 · 2026年4月刊 · 中文解读

战争的新燃料:五角大楼回收核废料的军事理由

The Science of War: The military case for recycling nuclear waste · Sarah Scoles
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一家初创公司计划从美国闲置的放射性废料中提取能源,以满足五角大楼对核能的需求。
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War’s New Fuel The Pentagon needs nuclear power. A start-up plans to harvest it from radioactive waste the U.S. leaves sitting idle BY SARAH SCOLES EVERY ATOM IS A COILED SOURCE OF POWER. But some atoms pack more punch than others. The radioactive elements fueling nuclear reactors can be coaxed into generating so much power that in the mid-1950s Lewis Strauss, then chair of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, predicted electricity would soon be “too cheap to meter.” Civilian nuclear power fell short of that utopian hype, but it succeeded in creating a lot of waste. …
摘自《科学美国人》(Scientific American)第334卷 第4期 · 2026年4月刊,Sarah Scoles。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。
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