Radioisotope thermoelectric generators do not rely on chemical reactions like the batteries in your phone. Instead, they rely on the radioactive decay of elements to produce heat and eventually ...

For decades, scientists believed that lead-208, a "doubly magic" and highly stable atomic nucleus, was perfectly spherical.

China has made a significant breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology, achieving record temperatures in its EAST experiment, ...

Like engineers who design high-performance Formula One race cars, scientists want to create high-performance plasmas in ...

In a global first, Richmond, Canada-headquartered fusion energy company General Fusion achieved the first-ever ...

Small, transportable and mass-produced “microreactors” are seen as part of the future of nuclear power. And it's underway in ...

Plasma physics is the study of a state of matter comprising charged particles. Plasmas are usually created by heating a gas until the electrons become detached from their parent atom or molecule ...

Using an infrared pulsed carbon dioxide laser, project leader Howard Milchberg and his team showed that they could detect low ...

Researchers at the University of Seville and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory created a fusion reactor that achieved ...

Researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory are exploring how deuterium, a potential fusion fuel, interacts with ...

is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory for plasma physics and nuclear fusion science located on Princeton University's Forrestal Campus in Plainsboro Township, New Jersey.

senior engineer Fan Honghai from the National Key Laboratory of Uranium Resource Exploration-Mining and Nuclear Remote Sensing in Beijing, reported SCMP. The national thorium survey identified 233 ...