Robert Zubrin’s Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR) design is a rocket that uses known physics and engineering . There are versions that could reach 7-8% of light speed. The use of low grade uranium ...

Useful, cost-effective nuclear fusion remains a distant dream, despite a small step in the right direction from the government's NIF reactor. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

The UK's First Light Fusion plans to build a 60 MW pilot power plant based on its unique projectile fusion technology to prove the integrated engineering for electricity generation and the production ...

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have demonstrated a way to use laser light to initialize, control, and read out nuclear spins inside a europium-based molecular complex. The result ...

Where does the periodic table of chemical elements end and which processes lead to the existence of heavy elements? Researchers report on experiments to come closer to an answer. They gained insight ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved a construction permit for Kairos Power’s 35-MWth Hermes molten salt “non-power” demonstration reactor, which the firm has proposed to build at the ...

Scientists have just announced a breakthrough in nuclear fusion ignition: For the first time the heart of a powerful fusion reactor has briefly generated more energy than was put into it. But experts ...