Urenco USA has produced its first uranium enriched to 8.5% U-235, in what it describes as a first for a commercial uranium ...

Late last week, Israel targeted three of Iran’s key nuclear facilities – Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow, killing several Iranian nuclear scientists. The facilities are heavily fortified and largely ...

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 ...

The results of the Chi-Nu physics experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory have contributed essential, never-before-observed data for enhancing nuclear security applications, understanding ...

Myriad Uranium CEO Thomas Lamb discusses the U.S. uranium supply crisis and efforts to revive Wyoming's historic Copper ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When most people hear the word uranium, they think of mushroom clouds, Cold War standoffs or the glowing green rods from science fiction. But uranium isn’t just fuel for apocalyptic ...

Men work inside of a uranium conversion facility just outside the city of Isfahan, Iran, on March 30, 2005. The facility in Isfahan made hexaflouride gas, which was then enriched by feeding it into ...

America desperately needs to un-learn a few myths about nuclear energy we've come to learn from the Simpsons and the HBO adaptation of Chernobyl. But even so, a recent experiment proposal by two ...

Fission Uranium Corp. FCUUF announced that Paladin Energy Ltd. PALAF completed the previously announced acquisition of all issued and outstanding shares of Fission Uranium. The merger establishes a ...

Asked a reporter at President Eisenhower’s press conference last week: Was the great thermonuclear explosion in mid-Pacific last year a “bargain basement U-bomb”—a sort of “super H-bomb with a jacket ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) André O. Hudson, Rochester Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) When most people ...