MuWave, a spinout from research by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, is upping wave power from gigahertz to ...

Madison’s nuclear reactor and fusion labs after announcing a state partnership to study Wisconsin’s nuclear energy ...

A single HMSR (Hybrid Fusion Fission Molten Salt Reactor) is designed to produce 5 GW thermal power at 700 C, thermal conversion systems should be able to generate 2.1 GW gross electricity. For ...

The stakes of the “race to fusion” are dramatic. Commercial fusion has the potential to deliver nearly unlimited energy by ...

The nation's top regulatory body for nuclear power plants and other nuclear materials, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has officially voted to regulate nuclear fusion differently than fission. The ...

Robert Adams updated the work on a phase 2 Pulsed Fission-Fusion (PuFF) Propulsion Concept. Robert works at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. This system should be able to achieve 15 kW/kg and 30 ...

Researchers at the new campus coming to the former Bull Run coal plant in Clinton will test how materials react under intense heat in a fusion device.

There are three things worth knowing about this week’s startling announcement of a breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology. First, this could one day offer a huge new source of energy. Second, it ...

When the first atomic bomb test, code-named “Project Trinity,” was conducted on July 16, 1945, civilization moved from the chemical era—during which atomic energy was outsourced to the sun—to the ...

More than 110 countries and countless companies have pledged to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, but can they get there with existing technologies? Probably not. But the net-zero equation is complex.

The future of nuclear power depends heavily on the effort put into research, experts agreed at the Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) 2008 taking place in Barcelona, Spain this week. "Be it in the ...