From gigantic planets and stars to tiny cells, all matter in our universe is made of building blocks called atoms. In scientific terms, the energy released from the core or the nucleus of an atom ...

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 ...

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 ...

By the end of the year the physicist Werner Heisenberg had calculated that nuclear fission chain reactions might be possible. When slowed down and controlled in a "uranium machine" (nuclear ...