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

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 ...

In “The Power of Nuclear,” Dutch journalist Marco Visscher takes aim at fears and misconceptions about atomic energy.

Nuclear fusion technology refers to the process of combining two nuclei to form a larger one. This is not to be confused with nuclear fission technology, which refers to the splitting of a nucleus ...

Nuclear fission reactors struggle with two key problems: poor fuel utilization and complicated radioactive waste handling. To ...

Nuclear fission technology is currently the way nuclear technology is in action. Nuclear fission technology refers to the process of splitting an atom into smaller nuclei. The two element’s atoms ...

There are some potentially valid criticism about the Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR ... might be a misnomer—Zubrin could be describing a rapid, sustained fission process that’s more energetic than a ...

AI gives a thumbs up to Brett Bellmore innovative modifications to Robert Zubrin’s Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR).

When the nucleus of a heavy atom, such as uranium or plutonium, is split into smaller parts (a process called nuclear fission), a huge amount of energy is released. This nuclear reaction is the ...

Resurgent interest in atomic power means the world’s second-biggest provider of enriched uranium is expanding even in Germany ...

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 ...