Science Made Simple: What Is Nuclear Fission?
Nuclear fission, discovered in 1938, involves splitting an atom's nucleus, releasing energy. It's essential for electricity ...
Nuclear Powered Rockets Could Take Us To Mars, If We Can Figure Out How to Make Them
Fission-powered rockets could halve the time it takes to get to Mars, but there's the whole issue of actually building one ...
Inverse1d
The One Technological Issue That Is Holding Nuclear Rockets Back
NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade – but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could take several months to years round trip.
Futurism on MSN6d
There’s a Big Problem With Using Nuclear Rockets to Get to Mars
Testy Subject Scientists have long proposed nuclear fission-fueled rockets to get to Mars fast — but one is warning that ...
How rockets could travel to Mars in half the time with nuclear thermal propulsion
NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade – but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to ...
malaymail2d
Destroyer of worlds: How the race for the atomic bomb that became death, and a stark reminder to nations in the nuclear era
The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a Japanese atomic bomb survivors’ movement, Nihon Hidankyo, fighting for a world ...
Using antimatter to detect nuclear radiation: Byproducts of fission reactors provide insight into nuclear reactor use
Nuclear fission reactors act as a key power source for many parts of the world and worldwide power capacity is expected to ...
Fast-Track to Mars: NASA’s Nuclear Rockets Cut Travel Time in Half
NASA and DARPA are developing nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) technology to enable faster crewed missions to Mars, ...
Phys.org10d
Nuclear rockets could travel to Mars in half the time, but designing the reactors that would power them isn't easy
Nuclear fission involves harvesting the incredible amount of energy released when an atom is split by a neutron. This reaction is known as a fission reaction. Fission technology is well ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN11d
Future fusion goals: US’ DREAM TEAM to 3D-print tungsten for nuclear reactors
Researchers from national labs in the US are working together to 3D print tungsten to be used inside nuclear reactors.
EurekAlert!14d
Using antimatter to detect nuclear radiation
Discerning whether a nuclear reactor is being used to also create material for nuclear weapons is difficult, but capturing ...
Swarajya15d
Rajasthan: RAPP's 700 MW Unit-7 Achieves Sustained And Controlled Nuclear Fission Chain Reaction, Paving Way For Power Generation
RAPP-7, a 700 MW Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR), is the third unit in a series of 16 indigenous reactors developed in ...