Here’s how a nuclear bomb actually works. The B61 and the B83 nuclear bombs currently in the United States’ arsenal are thermonuclear, or hydrogen bombs, and quite different than the fission weapons ...

An international team of researchers, including scientists from Science Tokyo, has developed a five-dimensional ...

“Our data reveal the stabilizing effect of proton shells at Z=36,” explains Morfouace. “This marks the identification of a new ‘island’ of asymmetric fission, one driven by the light fragment, unlike ...

A five-dimensional (5D) Langevin approach developed by an international team of researchers, including members from Science Tokyo, accurately reproduces complex fission fragment distributions and ...

The idea of leaving rapidly decaying nuclear waste is an important advantage. I’m not superstitious about fission power, but having waste products that last 100,000 years is a serious problem ...

What level of enrichment do nuclear weapons need? To get an explosive chain reaction, uranium-235 needs to be concentrated significantly more than the levels we use in nuclear reactors for making ...

Fission and fusion are both nuclear reactions. But while one involves splitting atoms, the other involves fusing atoms together.

For tech companies, part of the appeal of fission is a stable, predictable source of power that flows 24/7, giving their data centers the potential to run computing loads whenever they require it.

Deep Fission’s reactors would be lowered on cables down a 30-inch, one-mile deep borehole. The reactors are pressurized-water designs, a common approach used in everything from nuclear ...

California-based nuclear startup company Deep Fission, which is proposing to place microreactors deep underground, announced its emergence from stealth mode and a USD4 million pre-seed investment ...

AI tech companies are building small nuclear fission plants to power their data centers. However, nuclear fusion is the real prize, and investment is pouring in.

The solution to today’s need for an increased steady, reliable supply of electrical generation is nuclear fission reactors. Nuclear-generated electricity has been around more than 60 years.