The current idea is to vitrify the plutonium – bake it into a ceramic glass, like material – and bury it 1000 metres below in a geological disposal facility (GDF). However, the UK currently possesses ...

Fission is an open-source, Kubernetes-native serverless framework that simplifies the deployment of functions and applications on Kubernetes. With Fission, developers can easily create and deploy ...

Fusion technology is a long way from powering a grid — if it ever will. Dozens of fusion startups have launched anyway.

Greg Piefer is a UW-Madison College of Engineering product who is bullish about fusion uses today while urging patience over ...

Excitons, encountered in technologies like solar cells and TVs, are quasiparticles formed by an electron and a positively charged "hole," moving together in a semiconductor. Created when an electron ...

Looking forward to someone putting the new into nuclear Months after Amazon joined a half-billion-dollar funding round for ...

Unlike nuclear fission – the splitting of the atom to release energy – fusion involves forcing two hydrogen atoms together to ...

In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it ...

One thousand and fifty-six seconds, 17.6 minutes, may not sound like much time to us, but less than two weeks ago, China’s ...

The recent inaugural address of President Donald Trump has sparked a heated debate over the origins of a groundbreaking scientific achievement: splitting the atom. Trump's claim that American ...

Programme is part of mission to build world’s first nuclear fusion plant in the UK A particle accelerator in Oxfordshire is to rip up atoms to generate a crucial element for nuclear fusion ...