The nuclear fuel cycle is the series of industrial processes that turns uranium into electricity. Claire Maden takes a look ...

China is set to build the world’s first fusion-fission hybrid power plant, a revolutionary step in nuclear energy. The ...

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors ... in which fissile material (uranium or thorium) is dissolved into a molten salt-based coolant. In these liquid fuel designs, the fission ...

Sufficient uranium resources exist to support both the continued use of nuclear power and its significant growth through 2050 and beyond. However, timely investments in new exploration, mining ...

"Nuclear power generation requires a waste disposal solution, and responsible users should plan for waste management from the start," said Deep Fission co-founder and CEO Elizabeth Muller, who is also ...

Uranium is used to power the process of nuclear fission. During nuclear fission, an unstable uranium atom is split in half, which releases a large amount of energy. Clean burning and effective ...

Uranium atoms are split, creating heat, and that heat is used to boil water, producing steam that turns turbines to generate electricity. Nuclear fission occurs when a neutron splits an atom ...

Nuclear fission – the physical process by which very large atoms like uranium split into pairs of smaller atoms – is what makes nuclear bombs and nuclear power plants possible. But for many years, ...

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s but it was stopped because of the nuclear test ban treaty and concerns over fallout inside the ...

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency on Dec. 26 released images of nuclear fuel debris retrieved ... which are produced by the fission reaction of uranium, were also found. The debris measures around ...

Nuclear fission does not release the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide. A controlled nuclear fission reaction releases one million times more energy per kg than a chemical reaction such as burning ...