To be honest, I have no clue what I’m looking at beyond the fact that it’s a key object in the World War II-era race to ...

Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.

Plutonium is also the main fissile material in nuclear weapons, but it was revealed that ordinary people could purchase plutonium on a US website. In August 2023, an Australian man named Emmanuel ...

Scientists have been building nuclear weapons for more than 80 years, but crafting this technology remains a challenge.

July 16, 1945, marked a turning point in history with the first nuclear test, named Trinity, in the New Mexico desert in the ...

How do we power missions in the outer reaches of our solar system and beyond? The solution, developed in the '60s, can last ...

The original Oak Ridge lab’s nuclear salt reactor used U-233 atoms that experienced nuclear fission when bombarded with neutrons. The U-235 that Core Power is planning to use in its reactors is ...

According to several of the sources, German forces placed many concentration camp prisoners at the test site as human guinea ...

When the nucleus of a heavy atom, such as uranium or plutonium, is split into smaller parts (a process called nuclear fission), a huge amount of energy is released. This nuclear reaction is the ...

Appointment Strengthens Momentum Toward Deployment of Mile-Deep Nuclear Power – Deep Fission Inc. (Deep Fission), a pioneering nuclear energy company redefining the industry by placing small ...

Most RTGs are built using plutonium-238 as their source of energy, which is not usable for nuclear power plants since it does not sustain fission reactions. Instead, plutonium-238 is an unstable ...