Radioisotope thermoelectric generators do not rely on chemical reactions like the batteries in your phone. Instead, they rely on the radioactive decay of elements to produce heat and eventually ...

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s. It was stopped because of the nuclear test ban treaty and ...

Radiation-resistant nanomaterials enhance durability in nuclear systems by mitigating damage, improving structural integrity, ...

A team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has successfully developed a key system ...

If we achieve advanced nuclear, antimatter propulsion or other advance propulsion it would be possible to achieve near constant acceleration. This would ...

Once mastered, nuclear fusion technology has the potential to change how humanity lives by providing a limitless, sustainable ...

The college’s Visualizing Science competition finalists include the winning image of a Logistic Map’s Chaotic Portion by an ...

China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) has achieved a sustained temperature of 100 million degrees ...

The Earth possesses virtually inexhaustible reserves of the raw materials—deuterium and tritium—essential for a fusion ...

By Eric Wesoff for Canary Media. Broadcast version by Judith Ruiz-Branch for Wisconsin News Connection reporting for the ...