Nuclear fusion has long captured the scientific imagination. The dream is to harness the same process that powers stars to ...

"Think of a long chain of dominoes." US startup achieves historic breakthrough with first-of-its-kind nuclear feat: 'The dawn ...

Let’s start with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF)—arguably the largest, most ...

A five-dimensional model accurately predicts the asymmetric fission of mercury isotopes, advancing our understanding of nuclear fission beyond traditional heavy elements such as uranium and plutonium ...

California-based Oklo Inc. has signed a memorandum of understanding with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power to collaborate on the development and global deployment of its next-generation nuclear technology.

We took a look at the element tritium a short time ago. A "high octane" and ultra-rare nuclear isotope of which we have a global supply you could fit in an XL-sized suitcase. A supply that small could ...

The elements above iron on the periodic table are thought to be created in cataclysmic explosions like the merger of two neutron stars or in rare classes of supernovae. New research suggests fission ...

When you compare it to coal, nuclear power has a reputation for being squeaky clean, but there's more to the story than you ...

Although nuclear fission, which powers nuclear reactors, can provide plenty of energy, it also produces potentially dangerous radioactive waste as a by-product. Now, researchers say they may have ...

That all changed on Feb. 11, 1939, with a letter to the editor of Nature – a premier international scientific journal – that described exactly how such a thing could occur and even named it fission.

A California-based nuclear energy company with plans to place small modular reactors (SMRs) in mile-deep boreholes said it ...

DOE first announced its intention to use federal land for data center development and co-location in early April with a ...