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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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Perception vs reality - nuclear energy is safer than many think but there's still great fear around it
That is probably unsurprising given that the technology to split to the atom was developed during World War II by the ...
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, ...
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UK, US design detector to track nuclear reactors for weapons 100+ miles away
Chernokov radiation is used to detect antineutrinos released from fission reactions in a detector that could cost $100 ...
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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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2024 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Kairos Power and its molten salt–cooled nuclear reactors
The company’s technology could usher in a new era of reactors that are cheaper and safer to operate. Kairos is trying to reinvent nuclear power. Its molten-salt-cooled reactor could generate safe, ...
Sam Altman-Backed Nuclear Startup Gets Greenlight for First Microreactor
Oklo, whose name comes from the region of Gabon, Africa where self-sustaining nuclear fission reactions took place naturally about 1.7 billion years ago, went public in May. Sam Altman, the CEO of ...