Nuclear power plants have been around since the 1950s exploiting a fission reaction, whereby the atom is split in a reactor, ...

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 ...

By the end of the year the physicist Werner Heisenberg had calculated that nuclear fission chain reactions might be possible. When slowed down and controlled in a "uranium machine" (nuclear ...

The deal is the latest in a flurry of agreements that, if completed, would usher in a nuclear power renaissance in the U.S.

In a conventional reactor these neutrons are supplied by the fission reaction itself, which requires a certain concentration of the correct fissile isotopes (typically 235 U or 239 Pu) to be ...

Deep Fission, a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) developer, has partnered with Endeavour Energy, a US sustainable infrastructure developer, to develop and deploy nuclear fission to power AI data ...

The global Nuclear Power Market size is expected to grow from USD 38.84 billion in 2024 to USD 44.71 billion by 2029, at a ...

A company aims to bring a nuclear fusion plant online in the early 2030s, but the path to this breakthrough is anything but easy.

California-based nuclear startup company Deep Fission, which is proposing to place microreactors deep underground, and ...