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 ...
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Google bets on nuclear power to drive AI expansion
Other tech giants, including Amazon and Microsoft, are pursuing similar strategies as AI-driven power demands are set to ...
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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 ...
Nuclear rockets could travel to Mars in half the time − but designing the reactors that would power them isn’t easy
which uses nuclear fission and could one day power a rocket that makes the trip in just half the time. Nuclear fission ...
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 ...
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, ...
First Plutonium Pit For Nuclear Warhead Produced In The U.S. In 35 Years Is Now “Weapon-Ready”
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has announced the completion of the first ...
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Fusion Energy Closer With Help From Self-Driving Robot 'Dogs'
Unlike nuclear fission—the nuclear reaction that is currently used in the energy sector—fusion does not create radioactive waste. It produces three to four times more energy than fission and ...
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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 ...
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How Big Tech embraced nuclear power
In that context, it’s easy to see why nuclear is appealing: Fission reactors can run uninterrupted for years, working at maximum capacity over 90% of the time. Maintenance outages tend to be ...