Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seven years after the end of WWII, the US detonated the world's first hydrogen bomb. H-bombs use a combination of nuclear fission ...

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 ...

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So, this is a bit of a touchy question. From the beginning, even before the true destructive and killing power of The Bomb was clear to its own creators, one thing was certain: Nobody should ever ...

Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have designed a new system that, when fully developed, would use fusion to eliminate most of the transuranic waste produced by nuclear power plants. The ...

Ever wondered about Fission and Fusion, then public and campus community are encouraged to attend a panel talk from 6 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 3 in the UMass Lowell Emerging Technologies and ...