There are some potentially valid criticism about the Nuclear Salt Water Rocket ... water-moderation critique bites—thermal neutrons slow the reaction, reducing velocity and Isp. Comparison to a ...

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has cleared a major hurdle in making a Generation IV nuclear reactor practical ... Project to build the first atomic bomb would have used a slurry of salt ...

Firings and buyouts hit the top-secret National Nuclear Security Administration amid a major effort to upgrade America’s ...

The White House said taking ownership of Ukrainian plants would give them the “best protection.” The idea faces legal hurdles ...

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, occupied by Russian forces since the early days of the war, could be restored and ...

National security adviser Mike Waltz said Sunday that all options are “on the table” to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. In an interview on ABC News’s “This Week,” anchor ...

Lithium-6 is essential for producing nuclear fusion fuel, but isolating it from the much more common isotope, lithium-7, ...

President Donald Trump, in a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei proposing negotiations on a new nuclear ...

Lithium-6 is a crucial material for nuclear fusion reactors, but isolating it is challenging – now researchers have found a way to do this without using toxic mercury ...

Would it even provide sufficient deterrence against Russia's large nuclear arsenal of more than 5,500 warheads? France has 290 nuclear warheads that can be fired from either nuclear submarines or ...

JILA researchers are pioneering a nuclear clock using thorium-229, which offers unprecedented stability compared to atomic ...