Antineutrinos made alongside the production of weapons-grade plutonium could be spotted with existing technology.

Billions of dollars in venture capital and state investments have recently been poured into efforts to finally make nuclear ...

Commercial shipping has a massive 2050 problem. Responsible for 3 percent of global greenhouse ...

Pacific Fusion's sub-scale prototype delivered enormous amounts of power in a flash, setting the company up for its ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has verified the core plasma physics assumptions for its upcoming ...

Take a look inside ITER, the world's largest fusion energy project, to see how scientists from around the world are working to recreate the Sun's superpower on Earth to fuel a clean energy revolution.

In October, the Trump administration released a “Fusion Science and Technology Roadmap” to support the construction of commercial fusion power plants as soon as the 2030s. It may not exactly resemble ...

AI enters fusion: Machine learning algorithms are now embedded in tokamak control systems to predict and prevent plasma instabilities known as tearing modes. Why it matters: Tearing modes can cause ...

Researchers are now deploying machine learning algorithms directly into the control systems of tokamak reactors to prevent sudden plasma collapses. These collapses, known as tearing modes, reconfigure ...

Just east of Malaga, Wash.—a farm town in apple country—the Columbia River runs between basalt bluffs past the Rock Island Dam, which has turned water into electricity for the Pacific Northwest since ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Last August U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, who at the time was also the acting administrator of NASA, ...

The shipbuilding subsidiary of South Korea's HD Hyundai has been selected as preferred manufacturer for TerraPower's Natrium Reactor Enclosure System components, one of a series of agreements aimed at ...