Nuclear fission is fizzling, despite being pitched by the federal Coalition. But some Australian investors are betting big on that other nuclear tech – fusion energy.

A US nuclear reactor has switched from Regular to Premium fuel with Southern Nuclear inserting four Lead Test Assemblies ...

But where the NIF uses lasers to compress the fuel pellet, Pacific Fusion plans to send a massive pulse of electricity into a ...

More than 440 commercial reactors generate almost 10 percent of global electricity, a carbon‑free flow that has quietly been ...

As Iran’s nuclear program advances, the critical question of whether Tehran would need to conduct nuclear tests to ensure its weapons are effective looms over the consciousness of the international ...

How is fission of heavy atomic nuclei used to produce energy? In this course, you will receive a thorough introduction to the physics of nuclear reactors. We discuss the fission chain reaction and ...

US fusion start-up Avalanche Energy has announced the launch of its FusionWERX test facility in Richland, Washington.

Nuclear physics is the study of the protons and neutrons ... Example nuclear reactions include radioactive decay, fission, the break-up of a nucleus, and fusion, the merging of nuclei.

Mickey Wade was named Associate Laboratory Director for the Fusion and Fission Energy and Science Directorate in ... in 2010 for his outstanding contributions to burning plasma physics, impurity ...

Katy is Managing Editor at IFLScience where she oversees editorial content from News articles to Features, and even occasionally writes some. The Standard Model Of Particle Physics is one of the ...

Hooper has been studying the physics of bowling for several years, including an analysis of the 2017 Weber Cup, as well as ...