"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Clean and sustainable nuclear energy may sound like a washed up, post-war dream, but the modern ...

Nuclear fission is a substantial part of the world’s energy mix, but out in the broader universe, fission is much harder to come by. Now, a new study from Los Alamos National Laboratory and North ...

The nation's top regulatory body for nuclear power plants and other nuclear materials, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has officially voted to regulate nuclear fusion differently than fission. The ...

A Seattle-area startup best known for chasing one of the hardest problems in physics has decided it cannot wait for fusion alone. Zap Energy announced in June 2026 that it will begin pursuing ...

Clean and sustainable nuclear energy may sound like a washed up, post-war dream, but the modern reality of this power source is much more complicated. For one, nuclear energy in the coming decades ...