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In a study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung have discovered ...
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden carried out nuclear fission reactions in 100 different types of ...
Physicists have solved a long-standing puzzle about mercury’s nuclear fission by using a five-dimensional model that ...
Alphabet's Google said on Monday it has struck a deal to buy power from a project in Virginia fueled by fusion, the reaction ...
A Los Alamos collaboration has replicated an important but largely forgotten physics experiment: the first deuterium-tritium ...
A five-dimensional model has successfully predicted the asymmetric fission of mercury isotopes, offering new insights into ...
A new seaborgium isotope may unlock the path to discovering even shorter-lived superheavy nuclei through K-isomer states. An ...
The Wisconsin state Senate passed a slew of bills during session after hours of debate, including bill that would increase ...
A quick nuclear reactors 101: Fission is when uranium atoms are forced into an excited state in which they emit neutrons, striking other uranium atoms and causing them to do the same.
The amount of energy produced from fusion is very large — four times as much as nuclear fission reactions — and fusion reactions can be the basis of future fusion power reactors. Plans call for ...
Advantages. The nuclear fission reaction does not release the greenhouse gas close greenhouse gas The gases responsible for global warming - carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and CFCs ...
Technically, all atomic bombs are nuclear bombs, as they use fission — a nuclear reaction — as their power source (as opposed to traditional bombs, like TNT and dynamite, which use chemical, ...