Lise Meitner, a brilliant physicist, was instrumental in understanding nuclear fission but was overlooked for the Nobel Prize. Despite facing prejudice and persecution, her theoretical work, developed ...

Deep Fission, the California-based startup aiming to revolutionize nuclear energy by burying reactors a ...

That was the thought racing through physicist Francis Perrin’s mind in May 1972. He was examining a dark piece of uranium ore at a nuclear fuel processing plant in southern France. The uranium sample, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Uranium ore. RHJPhtotos/Shutterstock Late last week, Israel targeted three of Iran’s key nuclear facilities – Natanz, Isfahan and ...

Work on nuclear physics in the early twentieth century moved across borders, institutes and private letters. Lise Meitner was part of that movement for decades, first in Vienna, then in Berlin, later ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This relatively long transit time is a result of the use of traditional chemical rocket fuel. An alternative technology to the ...

California-based nuclear startup company Deep Fission, which is proposing to place microreactors deep underground, announced its emergence from stealth mode and a USD4 million pre-seed investment ...

Madison’s nuclear reactor and fusion labs after announcing a state partnership to study Wisconsin’s nuclear energy ...