Pantex Deterrence completes final B61-12 nuclear bomb ahead of schedule, marking a key milestone in U.S. nuclear ...

On Earth, nuclear fusion has been harnessed for thermonuclear weapons like hydrogen bombs. However, it hasn’t been successfully harnessed for practical energy production despite its prospects of ...

If all goes to plan, Virginia will be the site of the world’s first grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant, able to harness ...

As more companies moved to Oak Ridge, 2024 brought with it a steady stream of nuclear news coming out of the Knoxville region ...

Researchers in China have used a novel approach to explain the presence of supra-thermal ions in nuclear fusion reactions.

Functioning as a radioactive core for nuclear weapons, the component has been ... thus producing a much larger “secondary” ...

Commercial fusion power – electricity from facilities that will exploit the same thermonuclear fusion process that enables the sun to provide the planet with life-sustaining heat and light – may no ...

The prioritization of nuclear weapons means that fusion research has taken a back seat. “This means fusion research has been relegated to the same priority as most other lines of research ...

Nuclear fusion, a process that smashes atoms together ... office in April to handle projects related to around seven nuclear weapons systems. Y-12's growing workload comes as the U.S. ramps ...