A 24-year-old Australian man could go to jail for ten years as he prepares to plead guilty for importing plutonium from a ...

Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.

July 16, 1945, marked a turning point in history with the first nuclear test, named Trinity, in the New Mexico desert in the ...

Researchers at Korea's Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology have created a nuclear battery that could turn ...

For decades the 'club' of nations with nuclear weapons has been limited to nine members. But fears Donald Trump could ...

Barbara Scollin and D. Ray Smith bring the 12th part of her story on Kenneth D. Nichols. We learn of the nail-biting effort ...

Russia’s AI Leipunsky Institute of Physics & Power (IPPE, part of Rosatom’s Scientific Division) has begun tests to ...

Artist Michael Brophy's "Reach: The Hanford Series" is on exhibit at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on the University of ...

Instead, plutonium-238 is an unstable element that will undergo radioactive decay. Radioactive decay, or nuclear decay, ...

How do we power missions in the outer reaches of our solar system and beyond? The solution, developed in the '60s, can last ...

Pike County residents are no strangers to concerns about nuclear contamination. For decades, the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant has been a focal point of radiation exposure ...

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has cleared a major hurdle in making a Generation IV nuclear reactor practical. Using a ...