Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Students explore nuclear facilities in virtual reality and learn about the ethical dimensions of nuclear technology in a ...

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 ...

All U.S. nuclear reactors, which currently provide ... peaceful expansion of Enrico Fermi's successful Chicago Pile-1 fission experiment—fast reactor technology is nothing new.

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 ...

"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 ...

A cutting-edge project to test “fusion blanket” technologies is taking shape, with the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) ...

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