lightweight nuclear engines for everything from seaplanes to rockets and even helicopters (!) To get a small reactor to fly, you essentially strip it of shielding and use its heat output to expand ...

Nuclear power plants generate 18% of electricity in the ... “The beauty of this approach is that shielding materials can be replaced with a scintillator, and the glowing light it produces ...

Their robust design, with thick shielding ... Nuclear fusion involves merging light atomic nuclei to release colossal energy. On Earth, fission reactors, such as tokamaks, aim to fuse deuterium and ...