Scientists have been building nuclear weapons for more than 80 years, but crafting this technology remains a challenge.

Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not seem like a challenge, given how intense the sun's light can feel on Earth.

Nuclear fission reactors struggle with two key problems: poor fuel utilization and complicated radioactive waste handling. To ...

Since the first nuclear explosion in history during the Trinity test in 1945, nuclear weapons have significantly shaped the ...

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has cleared a major hurdle in making a Generation IV nuclear reactor practical. Using a ...

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 ...

Nuclear fission technology refers to the process of splitting an atom into smaller nuclei. The two element’s atoms which are generally used in this process are uranium-235 or plutonium-239. Nuclear ...

Russia’s AI Leipunsky Institute of Physics & Power (IPPE, part of Rosatom’s Scientific Division) has begun tests to ...

A wildlife corridor plans to connect two Superfund sites at the former Rocky Flats plutonium plant and the Rocky Mountain ...

Contrary to the popular image of green glowing waste water in yellow drum barrels, the short answer is that we store it — ...

Most RTGs are built using plutonium-238 as their source of energy, which is not usable for nuclear power plants since it does not sustain fission reactions. Instead, plutonium-238 is an unstable ...