In recent years, some large physics experiments worldwide have been trying to gather evidence of a nuclear process known as ...

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, ...

Robert Zubrin's Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR) design is a rocket that uses known physics and engineering . There are ...

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 ...

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 ...