Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

Two billion years before we made history and split the atom, the Earth had already accomplished it and was running its own ...

A California-based nuclear startup has reached a hallowed milestone that could accelerate the development of more sustainable energy sources. Per Interesting Engineering, Valar Atomics announced it ...

The first phase in developing China's and what's touted as the world's first fusion-fission hybrid power plant has been announced, with fundraising efforts for the project underway. A public tender ...

Researchers have employed Bayesian neural network approaches to evaluate the distributions of independent and cumulative ...

This relatively long transit time is a result of the use of traditional chemical rocket fuel. An alternative technology to the chemically propelled rockets the agency develops now is called nuclear ...

An international team of scientists has identified an unexpected region of heavy, neutron-deficient isotopes in the nuclear chart where nuclear fission is predominantly governed by an asymmetric mode.

A SUNY professor believes he discovered a way to make nuclear energy immensely safer and could prevent Manhattan from becoming the “next lost city of Atlantis.” Matthew Szydagis, 41, has spent the ...

NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade – but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could take several months to years round trip. This ...

Current chemical propulsion systems necessitate prolonged transit times for crewed Mars missions, driving the exploration of Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) as a more efficient alternative to ...