A pair of bills in the state Legislature would require the state to look for potential sites to put next-generation nuclear ...

In the quest to generate limitless clean energy, China has just taken a step closer. Scientists have achieved the milestone ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds, Bhavya Lal, the former acting Chief Technologist at NASA explains how nuclear power could unlock humanity’s next giant leap in space.

Lawmakers introduced a package of bills to support nuclear fusion research, in hopes of creating a nuclear "Silicon Valley" ...

British startup Pulsar Fusion has unveiled Sunbird, a space rocket concept designed to meet spacecraft in orbit, attach to them, and carry them to their destination at breakneck speed using nuclear ...

The decades-long struggle to find a permanent place to dispose of nuclear waste will continue, probably for many years to ...

A collaboration of US-based researchers has turned to the PROSPECT-I detector at ORNL in search of the elusive sterile ...

Unlike nuclear fission, which creates energy by breaking an atom apart, fusion forces two nuclei together into one. Reactions take place in a hot, charged gas called plasma and need extremely high ...

Fission works by splitting heavy ... only the simpler goal of creating a faster exhaust speed. The reactions that power nuclear fusion take place inside a plasma — a hot, electrically charged ...