Geologists led by the University of Maryland and the University of Hawaiʻi finally connected the dots between one of the ...

The prebiotic Earth was a harsh and unstable environment, characterized by intense heat, active volcanoes and little ...

In the quest to generate limitless clean energy, China has just taken a step closer. Scientists have achieved the milestone ...

Physicists propose that high-energy photon jets from collapsing stars may be secret factories of heavy elements like plutonium, challenging traditional theories and possibly explaining strange cosmic ...

Fast-forward to today: China, recognizing the latent power of molten salt technology, invested heavily in rebuilding the research. They successfully constructed a two-megawatt molten salt reactor ...

As Iran’s nuclear program advances, the critical question of whether Tehran would need to conduct nuclear tests to ensure its weapons are effective looms over the consciousness of the international ...

Assignment editors for CBS News Texas heard scanner traffic around 8 p.m. Tuesday indicating that police were responding to a chain reaction crash that may have been caused by meat on the freeway.

ABSTRACT: Since the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons entered into force in 1970, the peaceful uses of nuclear technology in electricity generation and medicine have been incorporated ...

In natural settings, U-235, the uranium isotope that can sustain nuclear fission chain reactions, makes up around 0.7% of uranium. The rest is U-238. Before its use in nuclear settings ...

Although this is a historic discovery of nuclear energy, it does not mean it is the only and final one. In order to deal with the intermittent nature of renewable energy sources, energy storage ...

In a process scientists call nuclear fission, the closely monitored atomic reaction is the lifeblood of the Calvert Cliffs facility. “Our reactors operate for two years at a time,” Phillippi said.