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

The Sunbird concept is for the fusion-powered ‘tugs’ to be permanently based in space, able to dock with spacecraft and ...

In his Atomic series, artist James Stanford showcases "the spectacle and the horror" of growing up near a nuclear bomb ...

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

Nuclear power comes with almost zero greenhouse gas emissions, but has its own issues in the form of radioactive waste.

(Image: IAEA/M. Barbarino) While the sun’s massive gravitational ... nuclear fusion does not emit carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and so along with nuclear fission could ...

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 ...

Like all nuclear fission plants, they are controversial. Their raw material is uranium, and the radioisotopes they produce are, by design, radioactive. Image caption, There are 18 staff at the new ...