Nuclear energy is a form of energy released from the nucleus, the core of atoms, made up of protons and neutrons. This source of energy can be produced in two ways: fission – when nuclei of atoms ...

Americium is one of the lesser-known synthetic elements, first created in 1944 during the Manhattan Project. The isotope of interest for space is americium-241. Its half-life is a staggering 432 years ...

Physicists at UC Santa Cruz will receive $555,000 of that to develop a literal gem of a monitoring system that such power plants will need to safely generate fusion energy—a system that incorporates ...

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US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has unveiled a bold plan to revamp how the Pentagon buys weapons, aiming to speed up ...

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In this video, Jeffrey Lewis explains why it is so incredibly difficult to convey the size and destructive force of nuclear ...

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President Trump has argued the U.S. should test nuclear weapons because other countries are doing it. But scientific data suggest they’re not.

Different nuclear waste strategies release vastly different amounts of iodine-129. A new study compares global approaches.