Scientists use light-emitting crystals and solar panels to turn the latent energy in nuclear waste into microbatteries.

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors in which either the fuel and/or the coolant is a molten salt. Molten salt is salt which liquifies at elevated temperatures and can store ...

In particular, all five fission products you’d expect were located. The amount of Xenon gas trapped in the reactor made it possible to calculate the operating cycle of the reactors. Eventually ...

There are no fast neutrons being used to breed fuel from fertile fission products or thorium salts – with the graphite moderator moderating all fast neutrons to thermal neutrons – making it ...

Studies include new methods and facilities where actinides (e.g. Np, Pu, Am, Cm) and some fission products (e.g. I, Tc) are separated and transmuted to short lived or stable forms. According to the ...

Its two sources of fuel, hydrogen and lithium, are widely available in many parts of the Earth. What’s the difference between nuclear fission and nuclear fusion? Both are nuclear processes, in that ...