By exceeding a long-standing density barrier, China’s EAST fusion reactor proved that tokamaks can pack way more atoms into ...

The U.S. space agency and the Department of Energy will work together to build a fission reactor on the lunar surface in the ...

Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

China's EAST nuclear fusion reactor has successfully kept plasma stable at extreme densities, passing a major fusion ...

Recently, another reactor in France reported a major tungsten breakthrough: its toroidal tokamak, clad in tungsten, ...

TerraPower, a Bill Gates-backed nuclear company, announced a deal with Meta to build up to eight small modular reactors in ...

China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) is a nuclear-fusion research reactor in Hefei. Researchers hope ...

Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than uranium—the most common fission fuel. The system also uses molten salt instead of ...

NASA and the Department of Energy (DOE) on Tuesday announced plans to develop a nuclear reactor for the surface of the moon ...

Aggies have big plans for small reactors at nation’s largest nuclear program. The Texas A&M campus at College Station could ...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - Kansas State University’s TRIGA Mark II nuclear reactor is a unique feature on campus. “We’re a ...

History shows that when American science and innovation come together, from the Manhattan Project to the Apollo Mission, our ...