A collaboration of US-based researchers has turned to the PROSPECT-I detector at ORNL in search of the elusive sterile ...

Interestingly, the fission reaction in an atomic bomb is used to trigger the fusion reaction in a hydrogen bomb. In short, while an atomic bomb relies only on fission, a hydrogen bomb uses both ...

Lawmakers introduced a package of bills to support nuclear fusion research, in hopes of creating a nuclear "Silicon Valley" ...

After 8 months in the shop Monstermax 2 (my first truck) is 99% complete. Stand by for secondary engine testing. Looking for ...

Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than ...

No matter what you do, matter can neither be created nor destroyed. This property of the universe is called the law of ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering arguments about temporary storage sites for the country's 90,000 tons of nuclear waste.

The process is much different than fission, the nuclear reaction that powers current nuclear reactors and the atomic bomb. Fusion is a carbon-free process that relies on heated plasma, a gas made ...

The small nuclear power plants will use molten salt in their fuel, making them safer and more versatile and portable than ...

The decades-long struggle to find a permanent place to dispose of nuclear waste will continue, probably for many years to ...