Nuclear fission is fizzling, despite being pitched by the federal Coalition. But some Australian investors are betting big on that other nuclear tech – fusion energy.

Weapons are supercritical: The plutonium is compressed enough to sustain chains of nuclear fission reactions, the splitting of atomic nuclei. The chain reactions occur because fission spits out ...

More than 440 commercial reactors generate almost 10 percent of global electricity, a carbon‑free flow that has quietly been ...

Comment AI's appetite for power is exploding. Hyperscalers have only just begun to adopt Nvidia's 120 kW-per-rack systems, ...

Seattle's Avalanche Energy has plans for opening a first-of-its-kind facility for commercial-scale testing of fusion ...

How deep and wide-ranging the impact of the coming economic shifts could be depends on many variables still in play and on reactions ... such as nuclear fission, fusion, and geothermal (though ...

“There’s a really interesting model here,” Langtry said ... together that fuse and release power — it’s the same reaction that fuels the Sun. Engineers can create fusion, but the ...

And however costly the Korean war may have been, it still may prove a better model for our ... which may start chain reactions difficult to control and might magnify the tensions within the Soviet ...

Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than ...