Researchers from the University of Washington and Los Alamos National Laboratory have used the Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to simulate the intricate process of nuclear ...

Nuclear fission is a substantial part of the world’s energy mix, but out in the broader universe, fission is much harder to come by. Now, a new study from Los Alamos National Laboratory and North ...

China is set to build the world’s first fusion-fission hybrid power plant, a revolutionary step in nuclear energy. The facility, known as the Xinghuo high-temperature superconducting reactor, aims to ...

Matthew Hole receives funding from the Australian government through the Australian Research Council and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), and the Simons Foundation.

The elements above iron on the periodic table are thought to be created in cataclysmic explosions like the merger of two neutron stars or in rare classes of supernovae. New research suggests fission ...

Kristen Schell receives funding from NSERC, ECCC and the US Department of Energy. Ahmed Abdulla receives funding from NSERC, ECCC and Carleton University Carleton University provides funding as a ...

GREIFSWALD, GERMANY - OCTOBER 29: A worker explains a photo taken about a year and a half ago that shows construction of the interior plasma chamber of the Wendelstein 7-X experimental fusion reactor ...

Last December physicists working on fusion claimed a breakthrough. A team at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California announced it had extracted more energy from a controlled nuclear fusion ...

"As we’ve acquired more observations, the cosmos is saying 'hey, there’s a signature here, and it can only come from fission.'" When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

China is working on revolutionising nuclear energey with the developmeny of Xinghuo, the world's first fusion-fission reactor, which is set to be operational by 2030. If successful, it could place ...