The massive power outage that hit the Iberian peninsula last month has reignited a debate in Spain over the country’s plan to ...

In an unassuming industrial park 30 miles outside Boston, engineers are building a futuristic machine to replicate the energy that powers the stars. If all goes to plan, it could be the key to ...

That was the thought racing through physicist Francis Perrin’s mind in May 1972. He was examining a dark piece of uranium ore ...

The world’s largest and most powerful superconducting electromagnet is ready to become the pulsing “heart” inside of a ...

Here’s a look at the International Atomic Energy Agency and nuclear power. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspects nuclear and related facilities under safeguard agreements. Most ...

And, she agreed to write about her soon to be published new book, "Fission, A Novel of Oak Ridge ... the Cold War gave me a healthy fear of nuclear weapons. I still vividly recall watching ...

A provocative question, given that the Golden State officially forbids construction of new nuclear facilities until the ...

She further explained that nuclear reactors generate electricity through nuclear fission, which generates ... myths and formulate knowledge based on facts. Sofia is trying to help spread facts ...

Nuclear energy is created by a reaction called nuclear fission. Now for the science bit. Splitting atoms such uranium or plutonium creates heat – and a lot of it. We do this by firing a neutron ...

1939 – Nuclear fission is discovered. 1942 – The world’s first nuclear chain reaction takes place in Chicago as part of the Manhattan Project, a US research program aimed at developing the ...

Deep Fission — which calls itself “the pioneering nuclear energy startup revolutionizing the industry by placing reactors a mile underground” — has teamed up with Deep Isolation ...