This cannot be possible.” That was the thought racing through physicist Francis Perrin’s mind in May 1972. He was examining a ...

The world’s largest and most powerful superconducting electromagnet is ready to become the pulsing “heart” inside of a ...

Nuclear fusion and nuclear fission are two fundamental nuclear reactions ... Potential applications include space travel and marine propulsion. An example of the latter exists from 1991 when ...

Founded in 1960 by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Nuclear Fusion is the leading journal in the field ... A category of article, the 'special topic', covers, for example, results from ...

In an unassuming industrial park 30 miles outside Boston, engineers are building a futuristic machine to replicate the energy that powers the stars. If all goes to plan, it could be the key to ...

Nuclear power, both the resurgence of fission and the promise of fusion, could secure our energy future and position the U.S. as the global leader in energy technology for the foreseeable future ...

What sometimes trips people up is that although both nuclear fission and nuclear fusion pertain to energy obtained from interactions between atoms, only one of these is exceedingly easy to make ...

The word “nuclear” conjures two images: A family and a mushroom cloud. Or for some, two trumpeting columns coughing clouds over Springfield, Homer Simpson unaware of the glowing green rod that ...

Nuclear fusion releases four times more energy per kg than a nuclear fission reaction. The technological difficulties of fusion reactors are difficult to overcome. Temperatures approaching the ...