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

Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than uranium—the most common fission fuel. The system also uses molten salt instead of ...

Scripps News takes you inside a California lab that is ensuring the effectiveness of the United States' nuclear weapons - ...

Tomsk State University is launching a school where scientists master the Geant4 software package. This tool is used in ...

Fusion technologies are rapidly moving up the performance curve as world records tumble. The road to commercialisation is ...

detector being used in the teaching laboratory as part of the Year 3 Physics with Nuclear Technology module, Detectors and Nuclear Lab Skills. Dr Bondili said: “This is a world first, as the novel ...

President Donald Trump's nominee for National Nuclear Security Administrator, Brandon Williams, is appearing before the ...

In a bid to revolutionize fields such as clean energy research, environmental monitoring, and medicine, the staff and students at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) have developed the ...

Chinese scientists have refuelled an experimental thorium-fueled molten salt reactor continuously without shutting it down.

Quantum technologies, which operate leveraging quantum mechanical phenomena, have the potential to outperform their classical ...

Neutrinos, elusive fundamental particles, can act as a window into the center of a nuclear reactor, the interior of the earth ...