An international collaboration of scientists working with the FAIR Phase 0 program at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für ...

These processes occur naturally in stars like our Sun. A fusion-fission hybrid reactor looks to use the energy from fusion reactions to split atoms in fissile material at its core, essentially using ...

On a practical technology note, Thorium cannot initiate and sustain a fission reaction. It needs to be exposed to high energy neutrons and then transmute to U233. It is the U233 that can sustain ...

Fission reactions have been reported again in uranium fuel masses buried beneath the reactor hall at unit 4 of the Chernobyl NPP in Ukraine which was destroyed in the 1986 explosion, Science magazine ...