Nuclear power plants have been around since the 1950s exploiting a fission reaction, whereby the atom is split in a reactor, ...
The former American president, who died this week at 100, was among those who came to clean up a partial meltdown at Chalk ...
Nuclear waste. We've all heard about it, but what is it? Is it a problem without a solution? How big is the problem? And what ...
Carter began working with the Naval Reactors Branch of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission -- the Navy's nuclear submarine program -- in 1952. Jimmy Carter started his adult life as a young U.S ...
The peanut farmer turned president, who died Sunday at 100, put solar panels on the White House and once spent 89 seconds ...
Scanning radioactive nuclear fuels and materials is the specialty of INL’s Irradiated Materials Characterization Lab, where Chuirazzi works. An array of shielding and other precautions is required to ...
Not even a spoonful of the fuel has been removed yet. About 880 tons of melted nuclear fuel remain inside the three damaged reactors, and Japanese officials say removing it would take 30-40 years.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been accused in a new lawsuit of hindering the nuclear energy industry, particularly smaller reactors, by imposing extensive time and cost licensing requirements.
The task at hand is to demonstrate the feasibility of harnessing nuclear fusion - the same reaction powering ... The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project agreement was ...