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

Nuclear fission—when the nucleus of an atom splits ... We see them, we don't see them, and so on. Most experiments look for them in the direction of the motion of the fission fragments, and ...

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

These revelations touched off a frenzy of scientific work on fission around the world ... water to conduct one or two large-scale nuclear reactor experiments at a time. By the very end of the ...

High-profile tech leaders are betting on nuclear fusion technology becoming a reality in the next decade — or less.

Scientists are conducting experiments to generate clean energy through fusion, the same sub-atomic reaction that powers our Sun, with the aim of constructing plants that produce more energy than they ...

Small modular reactors are compact nuclear reactors that can be combined ... an unprecedented comparison of plasma turbulence between experiment and simulation, proving that the gyrokinetic ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

Nuclear fission does not release the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide. A controlled nuclear fission reaction releases one million times more energy per kg than a chemical reaction such as burning ...