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

By the end of the year the physicist Werner Heisenberg had calculated that nuclear fission chain reactions might be possible. When slowed down and controlled in a "uranium machine" (nuclear ...

Scientists have been building nuclear weapons for more than 80 years, but crafting this technology remains a challenge.

In nuclear fission, atoms such as U-235 or Pu-239 split when a neutron hits them, releasing energy in the form of heat (along with more neutrons that can continue the chain reaction). This heat ...

There are some potentially valid criticism about the Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR). The criticisms highlight real physical ...

U.S.-German startup Focused Energy, which aims to build power plants fueled by fusion, said on Monday it has signed an ...

Since the first nuclear explosion in history during the Trinity test in 1945, nuclear weapons have significantly shaped the ...

Focused Energy, a U.S.-German startup, has signed a preliminary agreement with RWE and the state of Hessen to construct a ...

Natural fission requires specific environmental factors, including rich uranium deposits and groundwater, in combination with the correct geological makeup, to support the nuclear chain reaction. How ...