Quantum materials exhibit remarkable emergent properties when they are excited by external sources. However, these excited ...

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 ...

Researchers have developed betavoltaic cells that could power devices for years without needing to be recharged.

Nuclear batteries offer a power source that can last for decades, utilizing radioactive materials and their decay to generate ...

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

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.

The chain reactions occur because fission ... of helium throughout the lattice of plutonium atoms. Each decay also produces a uranium atom that zings through the material and “beats the ...

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 ...