Why does the government want the UK to use more nuclear power? In November 2024, the UK and 30 other countries signed a global pledge to triple their nuclear capacity by 2050.

Nuclear fission happens when something even tinier - a neutron - smashes into an atom causing it to split, a chain reaction then occurs as more neutrons are released.

Why is nuclear fusion so important? Nuclear fission produces radioactive waste, which can be dangerous and must be stored safely - potentially for hundreds of years.

Nuclear fusion is often described as the "Holy Grail" of energy. But what exactly is it, and why does it generate so much excitement among scientists and engineers? Nuclear fusion is a process by ...

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

US Department of Energy leaders announced that researchers created a nuclear fusion reaction that produced more energy than they put into it.

Companies are eyeing nuclear power as a way to reconcile their breakneck data center growth with their commitments to hit net zero carbon emissions.

A five-dimensional (5D) Langevin approach developed by an international team of researchers, including members from Science Tokyo, accurately reproduces complex fission fragment distributions and ...

The U.S. Department of Energy just announced a breakthrough in ongoing research for nuclear fusion, long heralded for its potential as a source of zero-emissions and essentially limitless energy.

Why is nuclear fusion so important? Nuclear fission produces radioactive waste, which can be dangerous and must be stored safely - potentially for hundreds of years.