"The longer that we wait for fusion to arrive, the more we need it." World's largest nuclear reactor aims to power Earth with virtually unlimited energy: 'The most complex machine ever designed' first ...

Advanced computing is being utilized to predict a key occurrence in nuclear fission reactions, which could help improve energy production in future plants, according to a new stud ...

TerraPower, a Bill Gates–backed nuclear power start-up, received the federal green light to start building a power plant in ...

The $4 billion plant is due to be constructed by 2030 and may represent a new era for the US's nuclear industry.

Virginia-based Jefferson Lab is leading a project to transform nuclear waste into usable electricity while also drastically reducing its radioactive life.

L ong before she died, the Austrian physicist Lise Meitner was horrified to realise that she was being written out of history ...

NASA wants to build a nuclear reactor on the surface of the moon—and fast. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who is also serving as NASA’s interim administrator, has issued new directives at the ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

In a modest workshop space in West Dallas, a seventh-grade student has achieved a result usually associated with university laboratories. Aiden McMill.

Imagine a scenario where nuclear weapons knowledge appears thousands of years before modern civilization. Teaching prehistoric humans the basics of uranium enrichment, nuclear fission, and ...

TerraPower, a start-up founded by Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, is set to build a new kind of nuclear power plant in Wyoming ...