For decades, the U.S. has led the race to clean, limitless nuclear fusion energy. Now China is catching up, spending twice as ...

A cutting-edge project to test “fusion blanket” technologies is taking shape, with the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) ...

Internationally, the growth in the number of nuclear power plants is even more rapid. Despite this demand and the advances made in the safety and design of fission reactors, the issue of waste ...

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 power plants harness the energy of countless atoms ... But the neutrons are much more likely to trigger new fission events if they are slowed down. Like traffic cops, heavy water's ...

While nuclear power plants have become ubiquitous, they all operate using nuclear fission — but one energy startup has plans to change this. Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a spinoff branch ...

Today’s operational nuclear power plants rely on nuclear fission, or the process of breaking atoms apart. Nuclear fusion, however, generates electricity by combining atoms, like what happens in ...

NASA plans to deploy nuclear energy on the Moon by 2030, ensuring reliable energy for future missions. Learn how this ...

MSRE plant diagram: (1) Reactor vessel ... which was traced back to tellurium, one of the fission products. This finding led to an adjustment of the Hastelloy N alloy, to counteract these ...