French scientists on Tuesday announced that they had reached a "crucial milestone" in the long road towards nuclear fusion by ...

WEST, a tokamak run from the CEA Cadarache site in southern France and one of the EUROfusion consortium medium size Tokamak ...

Yet despite improvements in the design of nuclear-fission reactors, there remain public concerns about their safety and the waste that they produce. Many have suggested that harnessing nuclear ...

Fusion is the Opposite of Fission Nuclear fusion and fission might sound similar, but they are fundamentally opposite processes. While nuclear fission breaks heavy atoms into smaller ones, fusion does ...

The U.S. currently has no permanent disposal facility for that radioactive waste, the NRC says. That means all waste from ...

On 12 February, the CEA’s WEST machine was able to maintain a plasma for more than 22 minutes. In doing so, it smashed the ...

How Does Nuclear Energy Affect the Economy? It boosts economic growth by providing reliable energy, creating jobs, lowering ...

Nuclear fission—when the nucleus of an atom splits in two, releasing energy—may seem like a process that is fully understood. First discovered in 1939 and thoroughly studied ever since ...