A California-based lab has made the first experimental measurements of nuclear reactions in high-energy-density ...

Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.

A new theory suggests fusion reactors could help scientists search for axions, mysterious particles that may explain dark ...

On Tuesday, the head of the Department of Energy and other federal scientific leaders announced that a fusion reaction run at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California achieved net ...

Nuclear astrophysics is dedicated to unravelling the complex nuclear processes that govern stellar evolution, explosive cosmic events and the synthesis of elements throughout the Universe. Central to ...

Sensors have detected increased levels of neutrons in an inaccessible chamber at the Chernobyl site, signaling that nuclear fission reactions are taking place in the entombed reactor hall, Science ...

Two billion years before we made history and split the atom, the Earth had already accomplished it and was running its own ...

The Chernobyl nuclear accident has become part of pop-culture history, the subject of numerous books and an acclaimed 2019 HBO miniseries. But the 35-year-old disaster isn’t entirely in the past.

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I agree 100% with the premise that nuclear power can serve our energy needs for the future. However, the use of thorium is a better choice for the smaller modular reactors. Thorium should be strongly ...

Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for a process that had previously only been theorised. The study provides new ...