A team of Chinese researchers has reported reaching a temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius—six times hotter than the ...

The United States is no longer content with brief lunar visits powered by batteries and solar panels. NASA is now betting on nuclear fission to turn the Moon from a destination into a permanently ...

An innovative algorithm for detecting collisions of high-speed particles within nuclear fusion reactors has been developed, inspired by technologies used to determine whether bullets hit targets in ...

Experiments show fusion plasma can stay stable at higher densities by controlling reactor walls, challenging long-standing limits.

The US Department of Energy has approved Antares’ preliminary safety analysis for its Mark-0 microreactor under the Reactor ...

ORNL and Kyoto Fusioneering are collaborating to validate fuel-cycle technologies required for commercial fusion power plants.

Standard Nuclear has begun producing HALEU TRISO fuel at its Oak Ridge facility under DOE oversight, with plans to scale ...

An orderbook that supports construction of repeatable, standardized designs can reduce risk, lower costs over time, and provide greater certainty for developers, suppliers, and public partners -- ...

A researcher works at the charging-sampling hot cell of the experimental Thorium Molten Salt Reactor at the Wuwei campus of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics in ...

China's EAST reactor achieved plasma densities 1.65x beyond theoretical limits, solving fusion's 70-year puzzle and bringing ...

FUZHOU -- China National Nuclear Corporation has announced that it had finished the preliminary design of the country's first fourth-generation 1-million-kilowatt commercial fast reactor, called ...

The Department of Energy has approved Antares Nuclear’s Preliminary Documented Safety Analysis for its demonstration reactor under DOE’s reactor pilot ...