Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.

According to several of the sources, German forces placed many concentration camp prisoners at the test site as human guinea ...

The NSWR is also fission-based and promising but less mature. Fusion-based propulsion ... 1950s and 1960s, uses nuclear explosions (typically fission bombs) detonated behind a spacecraft to propel it.

A multibillion-dollar project is set to be constructed in China, the country's latest move in a push for nuclear energy.

Small modular reactors are compact nuclear reactors that can be combined ... is the main driver to deteriorate the performance of fusion power plants. This work presents an unprecedented ...

While nuclear fission has proven to be much easier to achieve and control, nuclear fusion is seen as the “holy grail” of clean energy, as it doesn’t require any radioactive fuel and produces ...

Unlike conventional chemical rockets, Sunbird relies on nuclear fusion – a process that replicates the energy production at the core of stars – to propel spacecraft.

China plans to start construction of the world’s first fusion-fission power plant, with the aim of generating 100 megawatts ...

nuclear fission electric propulsion. But if we are going to be the species that can one day go to Mars and we want to go there with more equipment, then exhaust speeds are pretty much the most ...

Unlike the burning of fossil fuels or the fission process of existing nuclear power plants, nuclear fusion offers the vision of abundant energy without pollution, radioactive waste or greenhouse ...