The ERVI is reviewing the EU's production capacity for metallic HALEU. It is also looking at ways to enhance the production ...

Explore the haunting halls of the Rideau Regional Centre, a former psychiatric hospital left to decay. With long corridors, forgotten rooms, and a heavy silence, this urban exploration reveals the ...

First detected in 2015, gravitational waves may not have had a direct hand in human evolution, but it certainly helped set ...

Nuclear batteries offer a power source that can last for decades, utilizing radioactive materials and their decay to generate energy, making them ideal for remote and extreme environments.

Arguably, the step historically limiting growth of the radiotherapeutics sector is radioisotope generation. Isotopes are ...

An in-depth exploration of uranium reveals its complex and often ... role in powering the planet’s core through radioactive decay. Detailed explanations cover mining methods, from in-situ ...

WASHINGTON — Zeno Power, a venture-backed startup developing nuclear batteries for extreme ... an RPS — converts the heat from radioactive decay into usable electricity. The technology has ...

The decay energy of the radioactive source ... note that this method does NOT result in a dangerous chain reaction, as is the case with a nuclear reactor.

Nuclear waste becomes less dangerous over time on its own, because nuclear decay is a spontaneous reaction ... which disfavors the chain reaction. Some Gen IV reactors are also designed to solve ...

The exposure of fissile isotopes to neutrons results in rapid nuclear decay, along well-known decay chains into a range of different isotopes. Some of these are helpful – like fissile Pu-239 ...

For example, one nuclear fission decay of U235, an isotope of uranium typically used ... This releases more neutrons, which continue colliding with other atoms, setting off a nuclear chain reaction.