For decades, nuclear fusion has been viewed as the ultimate energy source—clean, powerful, and practically limitless. Most ...

Nuclear fusion promises a green and infinitely renewable supply of energy—if we can harness it. Fusion happens all the time ...

Scientists have developed a tabletop reactor, the Thunderbird Reactor, exploring the controversial concept of cold fusion and offering new insights into nuclear physics.

The UK government has announced a raft of tiny nuclear power projects, while Russia, China and a host of tech giants are also ...

ORNL scientists crack ceramic 3D printing challenge with leak-tight components, paving way for scalable, high-performance ...

Using a small bench-top reactor, researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) have demonstrated that electrochemically loading a solid metal target with deuterium fuel can boost nuclear ...

Sometimes an idea is so elegant that it really deserves to work. One such is a proposal put forward by the boss of Deep Fission, an aspiring nuclear-power firm in Berkeley, California. Elizabeth ...

A 1989 experiment offered the promise of nuclear fusion without the need for high temperatures, but this "cold fusion" was quickly debunked. Now, some of the techniques involved have been resurrected ...

Scientists in China have implemented a new approach to remove heat from the core of a nuclear reactor. Researchers from the China Institute of Atomic Energy have tested a Residual Heat Removal (RHR) ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 22 (Reuters) - The Trump administration plans to make available about 20 metric tons of Cold War-era plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads to U.S. power companies as a potential ...