NASA and General Atomics tested the fuel by exposing it to temperatures up to 3,000 Kelvin (4,940 Fahrenheit or 2,727 Celsius ...

Nuclear fusion offers the tantalizing prospect of abundant, clean energy without the long-lived radioactive waste problem of nuclear fission ... nuclear fusion reaction with a net energy gain ...

China’s EAST reactor has achieved a new milestone by sustaining plasma at 100 million degrees Celsius for 1,066 seconds. This ...

“It's here. It's now. It's already impacting bills.” “This bill allows utilities to start thinking about maybe one day building a small modular nuclear reactor and accruing hundreds of millions of ...

The UK was the first country in the world to develop a nuclear reactor but the last time a power station was built was in 1995. Ministers have blamed this on "suffocating" red tape, leaving the UK ...

A nuclear weapon could potentially be sent into space to deflect an asteroid heading Earth's way, an astronomer has told Sky News. Dr David Whitehouse said the measure could be taken against a ...

thereby enhancing the safety of the reactor. MSRs also generate less high-level waste, and their design does not require solid fuel, eliminating the need for building and disposing of it. These ...

A change is called irreversible if it cannot be changed back again. Many chemical reactions are irreversible. In a chemical reaction, new materials are always formed. Sometimes these new materials ...

pH is a measure of how acidic or alkaline a solution is. The diagram below shows what happens to an enzyme when denaturation occurs. Each enzyme has an optimum pH but it also has a working range ...

Feb. 6, 2025 — Nearly every disease has an inflammatory component, but blood tests can't pinpoint inflammation in specific organs or tissues in the human body. Now researchers have developed a ...