Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.

In April 2023, we reported on federal efforts to streamline fusion energy regulations. At that time, the Commissioners of the ...

A hydrogen bomb—thermonuclear by design—that doesn’t require uranium or plutonium; such a weapon of mass destruction could ...

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) has given Ontario Power Generation (OPG) the green light to begin building a ...

In an interview with ThePrint, physicist Yogendra Narain Srivastava discusses his radical new theory of black holes and a ...

The official definition of depleted uranium given by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC ... from spent reactor fuel in order to reclaim the U-235 that did not fission. Unlike natural uranium, ...

China Approves 11 Nuclear Reactors in US$31 Billion Green ... applies to all products under the definition "uranium enriched with the isotope uranium-235” and does not include the exports ...

Pressurized Water Reactors are a very safe design because the hotter the water used to cool the reactor, the slower the nuclear fission reaction ... sensors gather high-definition digital imagery ...

This course provides an historical narrative—constructed in a highly interdisciplinary fashion—of the nuclear age from the discovery of fission in the late 1930s ... historically-reconstructed ...

Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than ...