Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.

Nuclear fusion faces serious scientific and engineering challenges that are often glossed over in popular science videos. In ...

Construction on a revolutionary new kind of nuclear power plant is underway in Kansas. According to KCUR, an NPR affiliate, ...

Type One Energy, a University of Wisconsin-Madison nuclear fusion spinoff company, is partnering with the Tennessee Valley ...

Scientists have precisely measured two unstable atomic nuclei that play a crucial role in explosive X-ray bursts on neutron ...

Among these are two Nobel laureates in physics, one of whom is former U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who served during the Obama administration. The company’s vice president of engineering is a ...

A decades-old scientific controversy and a small bench-top apparatus at the University of British Columbia (UBC) could be the key to more efficient fusion reactors by increasing the chances of a ...

Many advances in technology spring from the mind of a single genius, but others, like nuclear power, are the product of many minds over generations.

The Energy Department announced contracts for three reactor fuel companies in an effort to undercut Russia's dominance in the ...

Prof. Nuno Filipe Gomes Loureiro was shot multiple times in his own home on December 15, 2025, and died in hospital the ...