It raises key questions around coolant level measurement technologies, such as noncontacting gravity sensors vs. traditional ...

Fission is a chain reaction that can spiral out of control; but fusion reactors don’t melt down; they stop when the power is cut. Fusion also doesn’t require us to mine for rare, highly ...

Nuclear fission is fizzling, despite being pitched by the federal Coalition. But some Australian investors are betting big on that other nuclear tech – fusion energy.

Fourteen years after the Fukushima disaster, nuclear power is being rebranded as a climate savior, and fission is in fashion.

Chinese scientists have refuelled an experimental thorium-fueled molten salt reactor continuously without shutting it down.

More than 440 commercial reactors generate almost 10 percent of global electricity, a carbon‑free flow that has quietly been ...

As the US and China exchange trade war salvos, concerns are rising that the decoupling could soon extend to the two sides' fruitful fusion energy coo ...

What will be the advantage of accumulating a greater store of fission weapons than would be necessary ... they may bring about local reversals which may start chain reactions difficult to control and ...