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Small Modular Reactor (SMR) construction shifts into high gear, as UK company Sheffield Forgemasters welds a full-size nuclear reactor vessel in under 24 hours instead of the usual 12 months. The rollout of this game-changing tech could be massive.Modular reactors have the potential to revolutionize the nuclear powe...

Sources have told NHK the air traffic control instruction of "number 1" that indicates the order in which planes should take off at Japanese airports will not be used for the time being. The move comes after the misinterpretation of the phrase could have led to last week's deadly collision between a Japan Airlines p...