The shipbuilding subsidiary of South Korea's HD Hyundai has been selected as preferred manufacturer for TerraPower's Natrium Reactor Enclosure System components, one of a series of agreements aimed at ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Last August U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, who at the time was also the acting administrator of NASA, ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hyliion Holdings Corp. (NYSE American: HYLN), a developer of modular power plant technology, today announced the successful demonstration of an uninterrupted multi-fuel ...

Another U.S.-based energy company said its technology has achieved key performance metrics that advance its goal of commercial fusion by the mid 2030s. California-headquartered Pacific Fusion on June ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) once again brings together the fast reactor and related fuel cycles communities by organizing the International Conference on Fast Reactors and Related ...

Take a look inside ITER, the world's largest fusion energy project, to see how scientists from around the world are working to recreate the Sun's superpower on Earth to fuel a clean energy revolution.

Just east of Malaga, Wash.—a farm town in apple country—the Columbia River runs between basalt bluffs past the Rock Island Dam, which has turned water into electricity for the Pacific Northwest since ...

There are a surprising number of experiments an amateur nuclear physicist can perform, from making a Geiger counter to fusing hydrogen atoms in a fusor. One project which we haven’t seen before is a ...

Researchers are now deploying machine learning algorithms directly into the control systems of tokamak reactors to prevent sudden plasma collapses. These collapses, known as tearing modes, reconfigure ...

AI enters fusion: Machine learning algorithms are now embedded in tokamak control systems to predict and prevent plasma instabilities known as tearing modes. Why it matters: Tearing modes can cause ...