Nuclear fission reactors struggle with two key problems: poor fuel utilization and complicated radioactive waste handling. To address these challenges, Russia’s A.I. Leypunsky I ...

Atomic Energy’s death spiral has spawned a run to green power. But the toxic mineral lithium has become a critical ...

When a routine procedure went wrong in October 1957, a fire broke out at the Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria, UK.

One class of these so-called Generation IV or Gen IV power plants is molten salt reactors, which replace enriched uranium or plutonium fuel rods and water moderator/coolant with a mixture of ...

To be honest, I have no clue what I’m looking at beyond the fact that it’s a key object in the World War II-era race to ...

Second, they needed to build more and larger reactors in order to create the right kind of plutonium and uranium to use in atomic bombs. Toward that end, the Manhattan Project dismantled Chicago ...

A 24-year-old Australian man could go to jail for ten years as he prepares to plead guilty for importing plutonium from a ...

India's three-stage nuclear program has come up for discussion in the Rajya Sabha. In today's knowledge nugget, learn about ...

Heavy water can play a role in breeding weapons-grade plutonium from common uranium. In a heavy-water nuclear reactor, when neutrons bombard U-238, some uranium atoms absorb an additional neutron ...