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

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 ...

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

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

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

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.

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 ...

Nuclear fusion, the reaction that powers stars like our Sun, produces huge amounts of energy by merging atoms (not to be confused with nuclear fission, which produces less energy by splitting atoms).