A team of scientists and engineers from the University of Leicester and NASA Glenn Research Center is developing a new nuclear power system for space. Last year, the university signed an International ...

Australia’s strongest particle accelerator helped conjure new elements into being. But many students trained at the facility ...

Heavy actinides—elements at the bottom of the periodic table, after plutonium—are radioactive, rare and chemically complex, ...

A catastrophe occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant 39 years ago, on 26 April 1986. Its consequences have affected ...

The US is responsible for at least 32 documented instances of a nuclear weapons accident, also known as a 'Broken Arrow' in ...

Understanding the origin of heavy elements on the periodic table is one of the most challenging open problems in all of ...

UNM will showcase several panels, including one in which the Santa Fe-based photographer and activist, founder of the ...

The Trump administration is prepared to allow Iran to have a civil nuclear program that relies exclusively on imported ...

The Westminster City Council has walked back an earlier commitment to build a robust trail right up to the edge of Rocky ...

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

Voyager 1, shown in this illustration, has operated for decades thanks to a radioisotope power system. NASA via AP Benjamin Roulston, Clarkson University Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not ...

In the film, eccentric scientist Dr Emmett “Doc” Brown creates a time machine from a modified DeLorean, using plutonium to power a fictional ... your experience on our sites. You can also sign up to ...