Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.

Nuclear fission reactors act as a key power source for many parts of the world and worldwide power capacity is expected to nearly double by 2050. One issue, however, is the difficulty of discerning ...

Seven years after the end of WWII, the US detonated the world's first hydrogen bomb. H-bombs use a combination of nuclear fission and fusion and are far more powerful than atomic bombs. Edward Teller, ...

An EPRI study by A. G. Tarditi, J. H. Scott focused on the conversion via traveling wave DEC (direct energy conversion), that has the advantage of being able to generate high frequency power (MHz ...

Robert Adams updated the work on a phase 2 Pulsed Fission-Fusion (PuFF) Propulsion Concept. Robert works at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. This system should be able to achieve 15 kW/kg and 30 ...

The Japanese nuclear disaster at Fukushima is no longer a leading headline, but the danger posed by the meltdowns hasn't entirely abated. Xenon gas, a byproduct of nuclear fission was detected in ...

The first phase in developing China's and what's touted as the world's first fusion-fission hybrid power plant has been announced, with fundraising efforts for the project underway. A public tender ...

On March 9, President Biden laid out his funding priorities in his proposed budget for 2024. Of these funding priorities, he included a record $1 billion in new investments in fusion programs. In a ...

AUSTIN, Texas--Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have designed a new system that, when fully developed, would use fusion to eliminate most of the transuranic waste produced by nuclear ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Over Christmas vacation in 1938, physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch received puzzling scientific news in a ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Meitner and Frisch were able to provide an ...

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