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 ...

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

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

Science can’t be rushed, but fusion’s true believers think capturing the sun in a bottle could light humanity’s future.

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 ...

Gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful kinds of explosions known in the cosmos, may help provide a piece of the puzzle when it ...

Recently, Commonwealth Fusion, which is building a demonstration tokamak in Massachussets, started construction of the ...

I began graduate study in 1975, the midpoint of the first 100 years of quantum mechanics, 50 years ago and 50 years after the discovery of quantum mechanics in 1925 that we celebrate here. So I’ll ...

Fission works by splitting heavy ... “Then, in 2027, we’re going to send a small part of Sunbird in orbit, just to check that ...

Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.