The Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Scientists Once Said Was Impossible

TAE advances hydrogen boron fusion by removing a 100 GW starter, cutting costs and giving readers a simple look at cleaner ...

Germany Shifts To Nuclear Fusion After Fukushima-Era Fission Policy

Germany pivots to nuclear fusion, partnering with Focused Energy and RWE. Breakthroughs at Lawrence Livermore bring ...
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America’s Plutonium Puzzle: From Cold War Relics to AI Ambitions

Washington’s gamble on metallic fast reactors and the use of plutonium in them could turn bomb metal into centuries of power.
Hoodline

Nuclear Know-How, Oak Ridge Expert Transforms Fusion Tech with Fission Wisdom

Nuclear fusion progress builds on lessons from fission, with ORNL expert Loughlin leveraging his experience to improve fusion system designs.
Nature

Pioneering nuclear-fusion reactor shuts down: what scientists will learn

The decommissioning of the Joint European Torus near Oxford, UK — a test bed for ITER — will take until 2040 and be studied in detail. Scientists have begun to decommission one of the world’s foremost ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

The entanglement of fusion energy research and bombs

The recent achievement of fusion ignition—meaning more energy came out of a self-sustaining fusion reaction than was put in—at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) ...
Phys.org

Covalent bonds found in alpha plutonium clarify its unusual atomic structure

Plutonium has captured the attention of scientists since its discovery in the early 1940s. This enigmatic element has an important role to play in emerging energy technologies like nuclear batteries ...
Mission Local

U.S. Navy found elevated plutonium in Bayview. S.F. says it was kept in the dark.

Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard. Photo by Christopher Michel. Radioactive plutonium was found in the air above Bayview-Hunters Point at twice the federal government’s recommended levels, according to a ...