Left off publications due to Nazi prejudice, this Jewish woman lost her rightful place in the scientific pantheon as the ...

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

Uranium enrichment, for example, transforms uranium-238 into uranium-235 ... underscores the importance of non-proliferation efforts. Nuclear fission is a process where the nucleus of a heavy atom, ...

Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.

Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...

For example, if a reactor in an MSR overheats, the liquid salt expands and naturally increases the leakage of neutrons from the reactor core, meaning they are no longer available to cause fission.

Cesium-137 is one of the most common fission products in ... to transform some facet of the nuclear power industry into useful batteries. In 2020, for example, physicists from the University ...

A group of large-scale energy users including Amazon, Meta, and Google has thrown its weight behind efforts to ramp up global ...

Scientists have been building nuclear weapons for more than 80 years, but crafting this technology remains a challenge.

Creating a clean energy source is the dream we are all striving for,” says Texas A&M engineer Dr. T.S. Satish Bukkapatnam who ...