阅读约 6 分钟
中国把钍变成了燃料。核能的未来正在东方建造
在戈壁沙漠中，一座小型中国反应堆做到了其他反应堆没有做到的事：以钍运行并将其转化为铀燃料。中国的核电装机容量刚刚超过法国，今年夏天又有八座新反应堆获批。中国如何建成世界上最雄心勃勃的核能计划，钍可能改变什么，以及欧洲和塞尔维亚能从中学到什么。
作者 智法传媒·
栏目
科学与环境
暴露、污染，以及案件背后的科学。
健康·阅读约 6 分钟
Lung Cancer in People Who Never Smoked: What the Air, Radon and Serbia’s Numbers Are Telling Us
November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. The disease kills more people than any other cancer, and a growing share of patients never touched a cigarette. New research points to polluted air and to radon, a gas born from uranium in the ground. What we know, what Serbia's figures show and the symptoms nobody should ignore.
作者 Legal Smart·
阅读约 6 分钟
Uranium Is at a Record. Before We Celebrate the Nuclear Boom, Look at the Mines It Left Behind
Artificial intelligence needs electricity, tech giants are signing nuclear deals and the long-term uranium price has hit a record. From the Navajo Nation to Niger and Serbia's Stara Planina, the first uranium boom left a health and legal bill that was never fully paid.
作者 Legal Smart·
科技·阅读约 5 分钟
Google Just Admitted AI Is Changing Search. What That Means Every Time You Type a Question
Alphabet lost about $500 billion in a day after Google said answers in AI Mode earn less than classic search ads. Behind the share price is a bigger story: how billions of people find information is changing, and who gets paid for it.
作者 Legal Smart·
战争·阅读约 8 分钟
Oil at $117: How the Iran War Travels From the Strait of Hormuz to Your Fuel Tank
Brent crude closed October on course for a 15% monthly rise after two tanker incidents in the Strait of Hormuz. Here is how a mine in a sea lane 4,000 km away becomes a higher bill for diesel, food and heating, and what to watch after 3 November.
作者 Legal Smart·
战争·阅读约 5 分钟
What Happens When a Depleted Uranium Round Strikes: The Physics, the Dust and the Warnings
The 30 mm round fired by an A-10 aircraft is about the length of a hand. Inside it sits a slim rod of depleted uranium weighing roughly 300 grams, and the aircraft’s cannon fires thousands of them a minute. In 1999 about 31,000 were fired at targets in Kosovo, southern Serbia and Montenegro.
作者 Legal Smart·
健康·阅读约 5 分钟
Black Rain Over Pančevo: What the Chemical Fires of 1999 Released
Rainwater collected in Pančevo just after the April 1999 strikes looked like Coca-Cola, a Serbian study recalls, and contained lead, copper and mercury. Above the town the petrochemical plant, the fertiliser works and the refinery burned, releasing by the researchers’ estimate 16 kilograms of soot a second.
作者 Legal Smart·
阅读约 5 分钟
What the Tissue Shows
A laboratory report filed in Serbian proceedings measured heavy metals in the biopsy tissue of a former soldier and a civilian. What it found, the argument behind it, and the questions a court will ask.
作者 Science Desk·
法律·阅读约 7 分钟
The World Court Has Spoken on Climate. The Harder Question Is Who Pays.
A Peruvian farmer lost his case against a German energy company, but the court accepted the principle behind it. The International Court of Justice has since defined what states owe. Neither has yet answered the question on which compensation depends.
作者 Legal Correspondent·
健康·阅读约 7 分钟
A Spoonful of Plastic in the Brain? What the Evidence Really Shows
The 2025 finding travelled the world as a single vivid image. The study behind it is more interesting, more uncertain and more useful than the image suggests.
作者 Science Desk·