achieved a controlled and sustained nuclear fission chain reaction. During the last months of the war, a small group of scientists working in secret under Diebner and with the strong support of ...

A company aims to bring a nuclear fusion plant online in the early 2030s, but the path to this breakthrough is anything but ...

The initial suspicion was that the uranium might have undergone some form of artificial manipulation or enrichment, a common ...

Nuclear fission was first observed in Berlin by two German chemists, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, in 1938. The possibility of a nuclear chain reaction was the insight of the Hungarian physicist ...

This remarkable revelation was the first direct evidence of natural nuclear fission, and it altered substantially ... and having the right environmental factors capable of sustaining the chain ...

The plant is set to be located in Chesterfield County, Virginia, and will infuse "400 megawatts of steady fusion power into ...

Normally, natural uranium has 0.72% of the uranium-235 (U-235) isotope, which is sought in the nuclear fission process ... the role of neutron moderator to slow them and control the chain reaction in ...

Uranium was found in one of the three meltdown-hit reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Fukushima No. 1 ...

The reactor is known as "the heart of Hinkley". It will contain radioactive uranium split by nuclear fission, in a chain reaction which generates a lot of heat. Temperatures inside will average 300C.