San Onofre is now a nuclear waste dump for the foreseeable future. This waste is so radioactive that it requires remote ...

Robert O'Brien was recently appointed as the Director of the Center for Space Nuclear Research with the Universities Space Research Association.

Although to most the term ‘fission reactor’ brings to mind something close to the commonly operated light-water reactors (LWRs) which operate using plain water (H 2 O) as coolant and with ...

Physicists say the discovery offers a potential avenue to "economically attractive fusion energy" in the future.

This is coming sooner than you think,” said Commonwealth Fusion Systems Chief Commercial Officer Rick Needham, who spoke alongside Type One CEO Chris Mowry at the BNEF Summit in New York last week.

System would also make it easier to transport much heavier spacecraft Engineering research outfit Howe Industries is working ...

4.7). In principle therefore, nuclear potential energy can be released into kinetic energy and made available as heat by forming nuclei closer in mass to iron, either from heavy nuclei by fission or ...

On March 20, the American Chemical Society’s Division of the History of Chemistry (HIST) presented a 2023 Citation for ...

Its two sources of fuel, hydrogen and lithium, are widely available in many parts of the Earth. What’s the difference between nuclear fission and nuclear fusion? Both are nuclear processes, in that ...