A multimillion-dollar government project is betting that particle accelerators can "burn" through the world's most dangerous ...

Nuclear waste becomes clean energy as Jefferson Lab's particle accelerators reduce storage time by 99.7% while generating electricity for the grid.

A nuclear escalation in the Middle East would trigger a global catastrophe. Know the physics behind nuclear weapons, and the ...

Most nuclear energy is thermal. All that complex nuclear physics and chemistry serve merely to create steam that spins a turbine, the same as any combustion-based power plant does. But what if you ...

Foreign critics screamed that the U.S. high-altitude nuclear test of July 9 would destroy the natural radiation belt that girdles the earth. An impressive group of U.S. scientists including Professor ...

Unreasonably strict radiation exposure limits are holding back nuclear power development, according to a July report from Idaho National Laboratory (INL) researchers. The report challenges the current ...

Suggested Citation: "1 Introduction." National Research Council. 1999. Nuclear Physics: The Core of Matter, The Fuel of Stars. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6288. work ...

New research could help in boosting the efficiency of nuclear power plants in the near future. By using a combination of physics-based modeling and advanced simulations, they found the key underlying ...

Seventh-grader Aiden McMillan is in the running for a Guinness World Record as the youngest person to achieve nuclear fusion.

This "Historically Speaking" column is intended to introduce readers to one of Oak Ridge’s prized museums that is not usually included when I mention heritage tourism assets in the “Secret City” of ...

The nuclear age dawned in the wrong place, at the wrong time. In 1938, outside Berlin’s Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry, Nazis paraded in the streets. Inside, German Chemist Otto Hahn patiently ...