Najmedin Meshkati is professor of civil and environmental engineering, industrial systems engineering and international ...

Fourteen years after the Fukushima disaster, nuclear power is being rebranded as a climate savior, and fission is in fashion.

A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that ...

The People’s Republic of China has reportedly developed a new weapon of mass destruction, one that employs hydrogen fuel, yet isn’t nuclear.

The explosion in new AI capabilities is driving a related competition for more electrical power, including nuclear power. But practical and regulatory obstacles have inhibited investors.

Imagine the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 and then multiply it by 670,000 times. Terrifying doesn't really ...

Chinese scientists have tested a hydrogen-based explosive device that produces a fireball with temperatures exceeding 1,000°C ...

Phillippi explained the basics of nuclear power as steam rose through a complex ... heat from multiple controlled nuclear explosions was vaporizing the system's internal water tanks, turning ...

Nuclear power plants in Japan are designed to be able ... to losing the containment building of the unit 2 reactor to an explosion. He was saved by a “miracle” when a weakness somewhere ...

On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl power plant experienced a sudden power surge, which led to a series of explosions. The ensuing fire and release of radioactive materials resulted in ...