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Khaled Talaat

Khaled Talaat is a postdoctoral scholar in nuclear engineering at the University of New Mexico. He has conducted research on multiple subjects including aerosols, radiological protection, and Generation IV lead-cooled fast reactors.

  • View of the doughnut-shaped plasma vessel of the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald, Germany
    View of the doughnut-shaped plasma vessel of the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald, Germany
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    Is the Age of Fusion Upon Us?

    Economically viable fusion energy will be one of the greatest boons in human history, but it remains frustratingly elusive

    byKhaled Talaat
  • Shi Zhengli inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology, 2017
    Shi Zhengli inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology, 2017
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    The Boys Who Cried Wolf

    Throughout 2020, the media reported a ‘scientific consensus’ about the pandemic’s origins without providing any information about its investigations

    byKhaled Talaat
  • An engineer performs a mechanical test on nuclear equipment via video conference on the 11th anniversary of National Nuclear Technology Day in Iran on April 10, 2021
    An engineer performs a mechanical test on nuclear equipment via video conference on the 11th anniversary of National Nuclear Technology Day in Iran on April 10, 2021
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    The Coming Nuclear Explosion

    On the 76th anniversary of the Trinity nuclear test that heralded the Atomic Age, a scientist looks at why so few countries have acquired nukes since then—and how that could change

    byKhaled Talaat
  • Hydrogen bomb test explosion, June 10, 1962
    Hydrogen bomb test explosion, June 10, 1962
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    Will Fast, Cheap, and Plentiful Energy Be a Legacy of Los Alamos?

    The atomic bombing over Japan 75 years ago today marked the beginning of an era we are only now fully coming into

    byKhaled Talaat
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    Wuhan Denialism

    Dismissing the possibility that COVID-19 escaped from a lab in China as ‘a conspiracy theory’ is bad science

    byKhaled Talaat
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    The Origin of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Wuhan

    We don’t know yet. But contrary to recent reporting, science does not rule out a lab accident or even bioterrorism.

    byKhaled Talaat
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