Chinese engineers identify a design flaw in NASA's lunar nuclear reactor, suggesting improvements that could boost efficiency ...

China has made a significant breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology, achieving record temperatures in its EAST experiment, ...

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors in which either the fuel and/or the coolant is a molten salt. Molten salt is salt which liquifies at elevated temperatures and can store ...

Yet despite improvements in the design of nuclear-fission reactors ... The most common hybrid design consists of a fusion reactor core surrounded by a blanket of fissile material such as uranium ...

A UK startup has unveiled a new fusion-powered space rocket concept called Sunbird for interplanetary travel to Mars — and ...

Mikal Bøe, CEO of CORE POWER, said “Nuclear fission is a well-understood and practized process. It allows us to access an enormous energy resource safely, reliably, and on demand without ...

While nuclear fission breaks heavy atoms into smaller ones ... exceeding 100 million degrees Celsius, hotter than the core of the sun, to overcome the repulsive forces between atomic nuclei.

In nuclear fission, atoms such as U-235 or Pu-239 split ... molten salt reactors are designed to drain their fuel from the core to a containment vessel below through gravity alone, requiring ...

Reports suggest the justices are favoring Texas, though a ruling in the state’s favor could counter its recent efforts at ...

This work presents an unprecedented comparison of plasma turbulence between experiment and simulation, proving that the gyrokinetic model GENE reached a high level of maturity to predict core ...

On Dec. 12, 1952, the world witnessed its first-ever nuclear reactor accident at Chalk River Laboratories right here in ...