An innovative algorithm for detecting collisions of high-speed particles within nuclear fusion reactors has been developed, inspired by technologies used to determine whether bullets hit targets in ...

The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant plans to launch a probe of the pressure vessel interior of one of ...

A team of Chinese researchers has reported reaching a temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius—six times hotter than the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MIT researchers have developed a technique that allows scientists to watch, in real time, how materials corrode and crack inside a ...

The biggest nuclear power plant in the United States is not a single hulking reactor, but a sprawling complex whose scale is measured in gigawatts and square miles. Its turbines quietly push out ...

Preliminary testing has taken place of an ultrasound system which is designed to provide an additional picture of the BN-800 fast neutron reactor core at Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Plant. Beloyarsk unit ...

Piece by piece, bolt by bolt, the Indian Point nuclear power plant is being stripped down to its parts, each one a snapshot in time from the plant’s six decades supplying electricity to New York City ...

A reactor at the world’s largest nuclear power plant that restarted for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster is now being shut down again due to a glitch that occurred hours after ...

When the second reactor opened at Connecticut’s Millstone Nuclear Power Station on Sept. 26, 1975, nuclear power was at the height of a golden age in the United States. Millstone, situated on a ...