as well as repeated French and American nuclear tests. Vidale attributes the pace shift to the “churning of the liquid iron ...

British startup Pulsar Fusion has unveiled Sunbird, a space rocket concept designed to meet spacecraft in orbit, attach to ...

The small nuclear power plants will use molten salt in their fuel, making them safer and more versatile and portable than ...

This is why natural nuclear fission reactors existed during the formative years of the Earth, when amounts of fissile material in the Earth’s crust was still relatively high. It is little wonder ...

Nuclear fission does not release the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide. A controlled nuclear fission reaction releases one million times more energy per kg than a chemical reaction such as burning ...

In scientific terms, the energy released from the core or the nucleus of an atom ... and pressure and can be carried out on Earth. Nuclear fission is the basis of nuclear reactors and nuclear ...

Physicists suggest a new explanation for the interesting properties of the Earth's inner core. Credit: NASA / Getty Images According to a new "holy grail" scientific discovery, the blazing-hot ...

Yet despite improvements in the design of nuclear-fission reactors ... will require emergency core-cooling systems to remove decay heat from the fission process should there be a 'loss of coolant ...

Nuclear fission close nuclear fissionThe splitting of a large nucleus to produce two smaller ones. Two or three neutrons are also released in the process. The energy from the neutrons powers a ...