Rosatom Director General Alexei Likhachev says that the first two new 600 MW units at the second phase of the Kola Nuclear ...

Idaho National Lab partners with Clean Core to test a new thorium-based nuclear fuel that may improve safety, cut waste, and ...

(All elements have isotopes, but only a few are stable.) Uranium-235—so named because it has 235 total protons and neutrons—is the only uranium isotope suitable for making a bomb [1] (see Table 1).

Physicists have solved a long-standing puzzle about mercury’s nuclear fission by using a five-dimensional model that ...

BEFORE 1940, chemistry did not know of any element with atomic number greater than 92 (uranium). In spite of occasional claims to the contrary scattered throughout the literature, there still is ...

The targeted attacks showed Israel’s intelligence prowess, but a new generation of Iranian scientists could blunt the impact.

A machine learning approach leverages nuclear microreactor symmetry to reduce training time when modeling power output ...

The Herald has revealed calls for the Torness nuclear power station to be shut down after it emerged an inspection found that Torness’s Reactor 1 had an estimated 585 cracks in its core bricks — ...

The idea of powering a house with a single atom might seem like science fiction, but recent advancements in nuclear physics ...

The enrichment process involves increasing the concentration of U-235 by removing the non-fissile U-238. This makes the uranium “fissile," meaning its atoms can be split by neutrons, unleashing vast ...

Investors who are searching for affordable uranium stocks under $5 may find a unique opportunity in Ur-Energy Incorporated (NYSE: URG). Based in central Wyoming, Ur-Energy is a relatively new ...