In a study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung have discovered ...

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden carried out nuclear fission reactions in 100 different types of ...

Google has made a forward-thinking investment in a yet-to-be-built nuclear fusion plant, signifying tech giants' growing ...

Alphabet's Google said on Monday it has struck a deal to buy power from a project in Virginia fueled by fusion, the reaction ...

A new seaborgium isotope may unlock the path to discovering even shorter-lived superheavy nuclei through K-isomer states. An ...

Uranium has civilian uses that have nothing to do with weapons. For a bomb, the uranium needs to be a lot more concentrated.

A Los Alamos collaboration has replicated an important but largely forgotten physics experiment: the first deuterium-tritium ...

The deal comes even though Commonwealth Fusion Systems has yet to demonstrate that its future power plant can generate power ...

As part of the tie-up, Google signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for 200MW of power from its inaugural ARC plant. The plant has a planned capacity of 400MW, and is projected to deliver its first ...

Take an in-depth look at how the atomic bomb "Little Boy" worked, the first nuclear weapon ever used in warfare. Dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, the bomb marked the beginning of the ...

The plant Google invested in isn’t going to be built until the early 203. When it starts generating usable fusion energy is ...

Enrichment facilities, by contrast, are used to refine uranium to be used as fuel—they do not host any nuclear reactions themselves ...