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Rachelle Abbott

Tech & Science Daily: ‘Nuclear terror’ at Ukraine plant - what’s the risk?

Following Russia’s attack on Ukraine’s vast Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, we speak with Malcolm Grimston, Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College London’s Centre for Environmental Policy.

A fire raged for hours at Europe’s largest nuclear complex, and Ukrainian authorities say while the blaze has been extinguished and made safe, Russian forces seized control of the site.

Mr Grimston also discusses future risk at the Chernobyl facility - another nuclear plant captured by Russian troops.

Ukraine is to sell non-fungible tokens to build its war chest to fight Russia.

The announcement by vice prime minister Mykhailo Fedorov came in the same week Kyiv raised more than £200 million from the sale of war bonds.

Elon Musk taunts Russia as the country says it will stop selling high-tech rocket engines to the US.

The SpaceX boss hit back on social media by posting a video of the Falcon 9 rocket launching another 47 Starlink satellites into orbit.

Mystery surrounds a discarded rocket part that’s due to hit the moon, and Fitbit recalls 1.7 million smartwatches because of a “burn hazard”.

Returnal and It Takes Two lead the way in the Bafta Game Awards nominations and a fossil sheds more light on the life and death of the stegosaurus dinosaur.

Plus, a pilot using artificial intelligence could transform cervical cancer screening, and Sony joins forces with Honda forces to manufacture electric vehicles - plus how underwater noise pollution is giving turtles hearing loss.

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