The government has announced the biggest nuclear programme in a generation, which includes £14.2bn to build the Sizewell C nuclear power station in Suffolk. It has also confirmed that Rolls Royce ...

An international team of researchers has developed a unique modeling system that could contribute to the future of nuclear ...

Nuclear power used today is created by a different process, called fission, which relies on splitting atoms and harnessing that energy, while also producing radioactive waste.

Physicists have solved a long-standing puzzle about mercury’s nuclear fission by using a five-dimensional model that ...

A single gram (0.035 ounces) of fusion fuel can produce as much energy as several tons of coal. Compared to nuclear fission, fusion produces much fewer radioactive wastes, and those that are produced ...

And unlike nuclear fission, fusion doesn't create long-lived radioactive waste, according to the Department of Energy. A view of Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant, in Leningrad, Russia on September 14 ...

Even if nuclear fission startups are able to overcome their engineering and regulatory hurdles, they’ll still have to find somewhere to build them. That remains the biggest challenge, I’d argue.

US scientists have reached a major milestone in their attempts to perfect a process which could potentially deliver almost limitless supplies of energy. Nuclear fusion does not rely on fossil ...

Nuclear fission produces radioactive waste, which can be dangerous and must be stored safely - potentially for hundreds of years. The waste produced by nuclear fusion is less radioactive and ...

In nuclear fusion, pairs of tiny particles called atoms are heated and forced together to make one heavier one. It is the opposite of nuclear fission, in which heavy atoms are split apart.