Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than ...

Neutrinos, elusive fundamental particles, can act as a window into the center of a nuclear reactor, the interior of the Earth ...

The system also uses molten salt instead of water to cool the fission reactor, which is reportedly much safer in the event of a meltdown. Uranium (U) is the poster child for nuclear fission ...

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Deep Fission Inc. (Deep Fission), an advanced nuclear energy company burying small modular reactors a mile underground for cheaper, faster, and more scalable ...

China has successfully launched the world’s first thorium-based nuclear reactor. This pioneering project, set in the remote Gobi Desert in Wuyi City, Gansu Province, is not just a scientific ...

World’s first private nuclear reactor, ‘the atomic furnace’ pioneered advancements in agriculture, chemistry, and medicine while employing an innovative safety design CHICAGO—April 23 ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co. announced on April 23 that it had removed a sample of melted nuclear fuel from the No. 2 reactor at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant for analysis.