NASA first announced that it would put a reactor on the moon “within a decade” in 2021. By 2024, the agency said the target ...

By exceeding a long-standing density barrier, China’s EAST fusion reactor proved that tokamaks can pack way more atoms into ...

NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have reignited efforts to develop a small nuclear reactor for deployment on the ...

The Department of Energy and NASA have announced that they are renewing their commitment to put a nuclear reactor on the moon ...

"This agreement enables closer collaboration between NASA and the Department of Energy to deliver the capabilities necessary ...

Recently, another reactor in France reported a major tungsten breakthrough: its toroidal tokamak, clad in tungsten, ...

Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

Bill Phillips, technical lead for salt synthesis, says, "It’s a major milestone for American innovation and a clear signal of ...

Two billion years before we made history and split the atom, the Earth had already accomplished it and was running its own ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company has reportedly postponed the scheduled 20 January restart of unit 6 at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa ...

The U.S. space agency and the Department of Energy will work together to build a fission reactor on the lunar surface in the ...