The executive order directed the Department of Energy to have three different reactor designs reach criticality in a bit over ...
Antares Nuclear achieved initial criticality of its Mark-0 reactor at Idaho National Laboratory earlier this week, making it ...
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have observed and characterized the initial stages ...
Is nuclear power the world's best hope for slowing climate change—or a high-stakes gamble that risks radioactive disaster? What if it's both? As the world seeks cleaner energy sources, nuclear energy ...
Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for a process that had previously only been theorised. The study provides new ...
The writer of a letter to the editor in the Nov. 6/13, 2023, edition, titled “Nuclear Waste,” has some serious misconceptions about disposal of such waste (page 3). If these were corrected, he would ...
Atoms are the building blocks of matter. Everything around us — from air and water, to rocks, plants and animals — as well as everything within our bodies, is made up of atoms. They are very small, ...