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 ...

July 16, 1945, marked a turning point in history with the first nuclear test, named Trinity, in the New Mexico desert in the ...

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

Robert Zubrin's Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR) design is a rocket that uses known physics and engineering . There are ...

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 ...

Small modular reactors are compact nuclear reactors that can be combined to create large-scale power plants. Here, authors demonstrate the practical feasibility of a multi-modular design in the ...

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