A multibillion-dollar project is set to be constructed in China, the country's latest move in a push for nuclear energy.

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

Small modular reactors are compact nuclear reactors that can be combined ... is the main driver to deteriorate the performance of fusion power plants. This work presents an unprecedented ...

Nuclear astrophysics is the study of nuclear-level processes that occur naturally in space. Notably, this includes understanding the chain of fusion events, or nucleosynthesis, that occurs in ...

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nuclear fusion creates four times more energy per kilogram of fuel than traditional nuclear fission and four million times more than burning coal, with no greenhouse gasses or long-term ...

General Fusion announced on Tuesday that it had successfully created plasma, a superheated fourth state of matter required for fusion, inside a prototype reactor. The milestone marks the beginning ...

Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany ...

The difference between the two processes is that while heavy atoms are split into lighter atoms to produce energy in nuclear fission, in fusion, atoms are combined. This was primarily because fusion ...