Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion ...

In what can only be called a phoenix-like moment, a decision has been made to wake up the nuclear power plant at Three Mile ...

China has made a significant breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology, achieving record temperatures in its EAST experiment, ...

Yet despite improvements in the design of nuclear-fission reactors ... The most common hybrid design consists of a fusion reactor core surrounded by a blanket of fissile material such as uranium ...

Chinese engineers identify a design flaw in NASA's lunar nuclear reactor, suggesting improvements that could boost efficiency ...

While nuclear fission breaks heavy atoms into smaller ones ... exceeding 100 million degrees Celsius, hotter than the core of the sun, to overcome the repulsive forces between atomic nuclei.

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors in which either the fuel and/or the coolant is a molten salt. Molten salt is salt which liquifies at elevated temperatures and can store ...

Nuclear energy’s potential can be viewed as two stories: nuclear for ships and nuclear for future fuels. Both offer a wealth ...

Mikal Bøe, CEO of CORE POWER, said “Nuclear fission is a well-understood and practized process. It allows us to access an enormous energy resource safely, reliably, and on demand without ...

Students explore nuclear facilities in virtual reality and learn about the ethical dimensions of nuclear technology in a ...

On Dec. 12, 1952, the world witnessed its first-ever nuclear reactor accident at Chalk River Laboratories right here in ...