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

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

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

Since the first nuclear explosion in history during the Trinity test in 1945, nuclear weapons have significantly shaped the ...

There are some potentially valid criticism about the Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR). The criticisms highlight real physical ...

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 ...

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

Fusion is the process by which a gas is heated up and ... reaction and three to four times more than a conventional nuclear fission reactor.

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

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

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 ...