In a striking sign of renewed interest in nuclear power, Constellation Energy said on Friday that it plans to reopen the ...

A new design for a nuclear battery that generates electricity from the radioactive decay of americium is unprecedentedly ...

Researchers have created a nuclear battery with unprecedented efficiency: 8,000 times more efficient. The battery developed ...

The low-energy excited state of thorium-229 (229Th) isotope nucleus has recently gained much attention owing to it being an ideal candidate for ultra-precise nuclear clocks. Building such ...

When you picture a sci-fi energy source, glowing green crystals are right up there. Scientists in China have now demonstrated ...

The performance of passive safety systems designed to cool a nuclear reactor without any operator intervention or power is being tested at U.S. Argonne National Laboratory. The Natural Convection ...

New research reveals unique two-proton decay in 18Mg, impacting nuclear physics theories and applications. A team of ...

Scientists use atomic clocks to measure the "second," the smallest standard unit of time, with great precision. These clocks ...

Cold War bilateral nuclear order has made escalation in the Ukraine war a risky prospect. Ukraine has been lobbying hard for ...

Yale researchers are analyzing lead ingots discovered in the mid-1990s from the wreck of a Roman Late Republican Vessel a few ...

Deep inside what we perceive as solid matter, the landscape is anything but stationary. The interior of the building blocks ...

A report about the decay and half-life of different radioactive elements. It is impossible to predict when any one atom will decay but by looking at a number of atoms an average rate of decay can be ...