Wisconsin is one step closer to becoming the "Silicon Valley" of nuclear energy, after Gov. Tony Evers signed two bills ...

In a first-of-its-kind agreement, Google will purchase electricity from a nuclear fusion power plant. But the technology ...

A world record for nuclear fusion has been smashed after an 'artificial sun' reactor was able to maintain a plasma for more ...

Nuclear fusion is the process which gives the Sun its energy. ... It is the opposite of nuclear fission, in which heavy atoms are split apart.

Fusion is the process that powers the sun and the stars. It's the opposite of nuclear fission, the process used in today's nuclear power plants, which splits atoms apart.

Physicists have solved a long-standing puzzle about mercury’s nuclear fission by using a five-dimensional model that ...

On the afternoon of Dec. 2, 1942, The Atomic Age began inside an enormous tent on a squash court under the stands of the University of Chicago’s Stagg Field.

Unlike nuclear fission, where atoms are split to release energy, fusion sees atoms forced together. Bob Mumgaard, ...

ITER engineers expect their tokamak reactor to generate 500 megawatts (Mw) of fusion power using just 50 Mw of input heating–compared with a nuclear fission reactor’s roughly 1,000 Mw of power ...

The plant Google invested in isn’t going to be built until the early 203. When it starts generating usable fusion energy is ...

In the sun, the extreme pressure produced by its immense gravity create the conditions for fusion to happen. The amount of energy produced from fusion is very large — four times as much as nuclear ...