If a future hurricane knocks down a big city's electricity supply, a floating nuclear power plant could be positioned off the ...

Plasma is the "fourth state of matter" alongside solids, liquids, and gases. When a neutral gas is superheated, some of its ...

In the universe, thermonuclear fusion is a common reaction: it is the source of energy for stars. On Earth, producing energy ...

Scientists have almost completed the development of the High Resolution Neutron Spectrometer (HRNS). The system will be used ...

In an audacious stride for the energy sector, a fusion startup has announced the design of what they claim to be the world’s ...

Pandora Dewan is a Senior Science Reporter at Newsweek based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on science, health and technology. Pandora joined Newsweek in 2022 and previously worked as the Head ...

Georgia Power has begun splitting atoms to produce heat inside the second of its two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle, a key milestone toward completion of the long-delayed project. The step known ...

The controlled self-sustaining fission chain reaction began at Kakrapar unit 4 in the early hours of 17 December, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd has announced. The Indian government has also ...

The Magnox reprocessing plant at the Sellafield site in Cumbria has reprocessed the final box of used fuel from the UK's fast reactor programme being stored in the plant's ponds. Meanwhile, ...

How do you control a nuclear space propulsion system? Very carefully. To help with this, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory ...

Harmony was in the air as the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy met last week to hear AEC’s new program to develop U.S. atomic power. After the long battles between Lewis Strauss and ...

In the Universe, thermonuclear fusion is a common reaction: it is the source of energy for stars. On Earth producing energy ...