Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion reactors. The new approach doesn’t require toxic mercury, as conventional methods ...

Lawmakers introduced a package of bills to support nuclear fusion research, in hopes of creating a nuclear "Silicon Valley" ...

The nuclear fuel cycle is the series of industrial processes that turns uranium into electricity. Claire Maden takes a look ...

Spotlight on Maryland received exclusive access to observe the workings of Maryland’s only nuclear power plant, one month ...

Nuclear fission is a process where the nucleus of a heavy atom, such as uranium or plutonium, splits into two lighter nuclei, releasing a significant amount of energy. This reaction is the basis ...

A British propulsion company is aiming to harness nuclear fusion and drastically cut travel times to far off places in space.

It’s rarely appreciated just how much more complicated nuclear fusion is than nuclear fission. Whereas the latter involves a process that happens all around us without any human involvement, and ...

Science can’t be rushed, but fusion’s true believers think capturing the sun in a bottle could light humanity’s future.

Unlike conventional chemical rockets, Sunbird relies on nuclear fusion – a process that replicates the energy production at the core of stars – to propel spacecraft.