Scientists use light-emitting crystals and solar panels to turn the latent energy in nuclear waste into microbatteries.

For decades, the U.S. has led the race to clean, limitless nuclear fusion energy. Now China is catching up, spending twice as ...

A UK startup has unveiled a new fusion-powered space rocket concept called Sunbird for interplanetary travel to Mars — and ...

Reaching durations such as these is a crucial milestone for machines like ... energy that exploits nuclear reactions, with many possible complementary aspects to nuclear fission energy and ...

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

By the end of the year the physicist Werner Heisenberg had calculated that nuclear fission chain reactions might be possible. When slowed down and controlled in a "uranium machine" (nuclear ...

Although to most the term ‘fission reactor’ brings to mind something ... ARE was an off-shoot of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) program that had its roots in the US Air Force, before ...

Nuclear fusion and nuclear fission are nuclear processes ... reactor and confines plasma into a doughnut shape using a machine called a tokamak, is impressive because, as recently as two years ...

Yet despite improvements in the design of nuclear-fission reactors ... storage because of the complexity and scale of the fusion machine required. The overall implication is that even if the ...