Nuclear power
Power generated from nuclear reactions
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Nuclear winter
Toon et al. simulated a nuclear scenario involving a potential nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan, modeling atmospheric effects from nuclear weapon detonations ranging from 15 kt to 100 kt on urban areas.
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| 2025 |
Bruce Banner
Banner trains Jennifer Walters in Mexico on controlling her Hulk form, with Walters ultimately rejecting the idea of being a superhero and wanting to return to her legal career.
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| 2025 |
Bruce Banner
Banner returns to Earth with his son Skaar and crashes a family gathering in Los Angeles, introducing Skaar to Walters, her parents, their cousin, aunts, uncles, and Matt Murdock.
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| 2025 |
Bruce Banner
Banner and Jennifer Walters are intercepted by a Sakaaran eight-courier craft ship in California, causing a car crash. Banner's blood accidentally cross-contaminates with Walters', leading to her transformation into a Hulk.
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| 2025 |
Bruce Banner
Banner departs in the Sakaaran spaceship to investigate the message from the car crash and return to Sakaar. During this time, he calls Walters and encourages her to represent Blonsky, acknowledging their reconciliation.
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| 2024 |
Nuclear winter
The Independent Study is scheduled to release its final report, providing a comprehensive assessment of nuclear winter research findings.
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| 2024 |
Doctor Manhattan
Doctor Manhattan appears in the two-part animated film Watchmen, voiced by Michael Cerveris.
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| 2024 |
Bruce Banner
Banner attempts to bombard himself with more Gamma radiation to rid himself of the Hulk. The attempt fails and instead creates a second, monstrous 'Apex' Hulk that splits from Banner and becomes a rampaging kaiju capable of spawning an army.
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| 2024 |
Bruce Banner
Bruce Banner creates a device to heal his arm, allowing him to remain in human form. He wears a sling from an injury sustained while reversing the Blip, though the scarring has healed.
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| 2024 |
Bruce Banner
Banner joins a hologram call with Wong and Captain Marvel, meeting Shang-Chi and welcoming him to the team while discussing the ten rings that belonged to Shang-Chi's father.
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| 2024 |
Bruce Banner
A variant of Bruce Banner as the Hulk is shown in an encounter with Wolverine, with Wade Wilson (Deadpool) interrupting their fight while searching for a variant to replace the deceased Wolverine from his timeline.
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| 2024 |
Godzilla
Upcoming release of the novelization for 'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire', continuing the narrative expansion of the Monsterverse.
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| 2024 |
Godzilla
Godzilla x Kong: Titan Chasers mobile and PC game was released, and Godzilla Evolved was introduced in Fortnite as part of the Titan Takedown event with King Kong.
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| 2024 |
Godzilla
Godzilla appears in two comics: 'Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted' and 'Which is Stronger!? Godzilla x Kong', continuing the monster's comic book narrative.
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| 2024 |
Godzilla
Godzilla is set to appear in 'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire', continuing the monster franchise's storyline.
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| 2024 |
Godzilla
In 'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire', Godzilla transforms into an 'Evolved' state after defeating Tiamat, featuring a slimmer build, pink dorsal plates, facial spikes, forearm spike protrusions, and thagomizer tail tip.
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| March 2024 |
Discharge of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
Fourth round of water discharge completed, with no abnormal tritium levels detected in nearby waters.
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| March 2024 |
Discharge of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
The discharge of treated radioactive water was temporarily suspended following a 5.8-magnitude earthquake in the Fukushima coastal region. No abnormalities were detected with the wastewater treatment during this interruption.
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| February 2024 |
Discharge of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
A leak was detected by a contractor at the power plant, with 5.5 tonnes of potentially radioactive water escaping due to 10 out of 16 valves being left open, seeping into the surrounding soil within the plant compound.
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| 2023 |
Nuclear winter
The U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine initiated an Independent Study on Potential Environmental Effects of Nuclear War, aimed at comprehensively evaluating existing research on nuclear winter.
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| 2023 |
William L. Borden
Portrayed by actor David Dastmalchian in Christopher Nolan's film Oppenheimer, further bringing Borden's story to wider public attention.
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| 2023 |
Bruce Banner
Time-travels to an alternate 2012 in New York City, successfully obtaining the Time Stone from the Ancient One.
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| 2023 |
Bruce Banner
Banner achieves a permanent Smart Hulk form, combining his mind and Banner's consciousness with the Hulk's body. He meets with Rogers, Romanoff, and Scott Lang to discuss the quantum time-travel plan.
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| 2023 |
Bruce Banner
Participates in the final battle against alternate Thanos and his army, ultimately defeating them when Tony Stark uses the Infinity Stones.
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| 2023 |
Bruce Banner
Attends Tony Stark's funeral and helps prepare a quantum portal for Steve Rogers to return the alternate Infinity Stones.
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| 2023 |
Bruce Banner
Volunteers to activate the Infinity Stones using the Nano-Gauntlet, reversing the Blip while suffering a serious injury to his right arm.
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| 2023 |
Bruce Banner
Travels to New Asgard with Rocket, reunites with Valkyrie, and recruits Thor to help the Avengers' time-travel mission.
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| 2023 |
Godzilla
Godzilla participates in the crossover comic 'Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong', featuring a major confrontation with DC Comics characters.
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| 2023 |
Godzilla
Godzilla appears in the Apple TV+ television series 'Monarch: Legacy of Monsters', which explores the Titan universe and Godzilla's ongoing role in the Monsterverse narrative.
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| 2023 |
Godzilla
The TV series 'Monarch: Legacy of Monsters' presented two Godzilla designs: a 1950s version with spikier dorsal fins, and a 2015 version with curvier fins reflecting damage from the 2014 battle.
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| August 2023 |
Discharge of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
Fisheries minister Tetsuro Nomura called the treated radioactive water 'contaminated', but later apologized and retracted the statement after receiving instruction from Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
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| August 25 2023 |
Discharge of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
TEPCO reported that tritium levels in seawater around Fukushima remained below the detection limit of 10 Bq/L. The Japanese Fishery Agency confirmed no detectable amounts of tritium in fish caught 4 km from the discharge pipe.
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| August 24 2023 |
Discharge of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
Japan began discharging treated waste water into the Pacific Ocean, which triggered protests in the region and prompted China to expand its ban on aquatic imports from Japan.
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| August 24 2023 |
Discharge of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
Protests against the water discharge erupt in South Korea, Hong Kong, and Tokyo, with approximately 50,000 people gathering in Seoul and some attempting to storm the Japanese embassy.
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| August 23 2023 |
Discharge of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka expresses support for the IAEA report, stating the plan meets international safety standards.
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| August 22 2023 |
Discharge of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
Japan announced plans to release treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean within 48 hours, despite regional opposition. The water was treated using the Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) to remove radiation, with tritium remaining as the primary radioactive element.
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| July 2023 |
Discharge of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
IAEA releases a conclusion that Japan's discharge plan is in accordance with international safety standards, but does not fully endorse the decision.
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| June 2023 |
Discharge of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
South Korean shoppers rush to buy salt and other items before the expected water discharge, with the government banning seafood from near Fukushima.
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| June 2023 |
Bruce Banner
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures regains film distribution rights to The Incredible Hulk and future solo Hulk films.
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| May 2023 |
Discharge of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
An interlaboratory comparison was conducted with 3 IAEA laboratories and 4 national laboratories to verify TEPCO's testing of ALPS-treated water.
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| April 2023 |
Discharge of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
Japan's NRA announced a Comprehensive Radiation Monitoring Plan to continually monitor radionuclide concentrations across Japan.
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| February 2023 |
Firestorm
Release of 'The DC Universe by Dwayne McDuffie', a collected edition that includes Firestorm: The Nuclear Man vol. 3 #33-35 among other works, totaling 280 pages.
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| January 2023 |
Discharge of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
U.S. National Association of Marine Laboratories opposes the discharge plan, citing lack of adequate scientific data supporting safety claims.
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| 2022 |
The Batman Who Laughs
McFarlane Toys released a 5-inch Super Powers figure of The Batman Who Laughs, expanding the character's merchandise line.
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| 2022 |
Nuclear fallout
The US Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency published 'Planning Guidance for Response to a Nuclear Detonation', updating and expanding upon previous Civil Defense nuclear fallout protection frameworks.
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| 2022 |
Bruce Banner
Mark Ruffalo reprises his role as Bruce Banner in the Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.
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| 2022 |
Godzilla
Godzilla was featured in Call of Duty: Warzone across multiple gaming platforms.
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| August 2022 |
Nuclear winter
A peer-reviewed study published in Nature Food revealed that a full-scale nuclear war between the United States and Russia would result in direct deaths of 360 million people and indirect starvation deaths of over 5 billion people during a nuclear winter.
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| June 2022 |
Nuclear microreactor
US Department of Strategic Capabilities partnered with BWXT Technologies to develop a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) that generates between 1 and 5 MWe and is transportable in shipping containers.
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