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

A research team led by GE Hitachi Nuclear has successfully tested an innovative new building block made of steel-concrete ...

The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it will conduct the second test retrieval of fuel ...

Science News has been covering nuclear physics since our earliest incarnation, starting with scientists’ effort to decode the secrets of the atom. In the 1930s, readers learned about the ...

GE Hitachi Nuclear's modular steel-concrete composite is one of three technologies the DOE is exploring to cut construction ...

One type of advanced reactor, a molten salt reactor, uses fuels dissolved in molten salt coolants instead of the solid fuels used in traditional nuclear reactors ... Special structures in the system ...

Brandon Williams, the nominee to lead the National Nuclear Security Administration, said he would recommend reliance on ...

As Iran’s nuclear program advances, the critical question of whether Tehran would need to conduct nuclear tests to ensure its weapons are effective looms over the consciousness of the international ...

To the disbelief of many, Harvard astrophysicist John Brandenburg believes that intelligent life once existed on Mars and was ...

The decades-long struggle to find a permanent place to dispose of nuclear waste will continue, probably for many years to ...

The Diaphragm Plate Steel Composite (DPSC) units were tested at Purdue University’s Bowen Laboratory in Lafayette, Indiana ...