Nuclear fusion progress builds on lessons from fission, with ORNL expert Loughlin leveraging his experience to improve fusion system designs.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sensors have detected increased levels of neutrons in an inaccessible chamber at the Chernobyl site, signaling that nuclear fission reactions are taking place in the entombed reactor hall, Science ...

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, ...

Can we have our cake and eat it too? Can we have a non-thermal nuclear propulsion minimizing waste heat? * Yes. By making the fuel into dust. There is the original dusty fission fragment version.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Imagine a world where energy is limitless, clean, and safe—without the environmental toll of fossil fuels or the risks of nuclear meltdowns. This is the promise of nuclear fusion, a process that ...

A California company has announced plans to bring a first-of-its-kind nuclear reactor to Southeast Kansas that it hopes will be generating electrical power in the next two ...