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

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

‘Experiments will continue with increased power.’ Nuclear fusion is seen by some experts as preferable to nuclear fission, which is currently used to power the planet alongside fossil fuels ...

This work presents an unprecedented comparison of plasma turbulence between experiment and simulation, proving that the gyrokinetic model GENE reached a high level of maturity to predict core ...

"Every time we do a fusion experiment on the NIF ... more energy than fission (which splits atoms apart). Fission is used by today's nuclear power plants and creates hazardous nuclear waste ...

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 ...

repeated his experiments over the next four years and by 1938, realised what Fermi had discovered was nuclear fission. Fission sees the nucleus of unstable elements like uranium and plutonium ...

Experiments will continue with increased ... with many possible complementary aspects to nuclear fission energy and associated techniques relating to neutrons and matter, which are well understood.

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

Proxima Fusion, a Munich-based nuclear fusion technology company, aims to start a test reactor in 2031 as it works towards ...

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 ...