While other teenagers might be busy curating their social media pages or playing Fortnite for hours, 14-year-old Jackson Oswalt has been spent his free time working on building his own nuclear reactor ...

A team at the Colorado School of Mines is working to create hydrogen membranes for use in nuclear fusion power plants. The project, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects ...

Although nuclear power doesn't produce greenhouse gases when generating electricity, the logistical lifecycle of nuclear ...

Reusing fuel could help alleviate a worsening supply-chain issue and a threat to new nuclear technology. Efforts to stand up nuclear fuel recycling projects accelerated this month with two major ...

Not only does nuclear fission provide the majority of the electricity that powers our homes, but it has also proved how destructive the power within the atom can be. When you purchase through links on ...

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is the largest nuclear fusion experiment in the world. The megaproject is a collaborative effort funded and run by seven members: the ...

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South Africa’s longstanding ambitions to expand its nuclear power capacity gained some ground this July, after the nation’s nuclear regulator announced it would convene a public hearing relating to a ...

Vladimir Putin's recent threats of nuclear weapon use are deeply concerning. A nuclear war would have catastrophic consequences, both short and long-term, including radiation-induced cancers. However, ...

A hypothetical nuclear process known as neutrinoless double beta decay ought to be among the least likely events in the universe. Now researchers have determined just how unlikely it is. A ...

A nuclear thermal rocket engine in development could one day transport humans to Mars. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a research arm of the US Department of Defense, and NASA are ...