New Nuclear Reactor With a Stirling Engine Could Power Space Missions

A new reactor concept that combines Stirling engine with modern heat pipe cooling system might provide power to upcoming space missions. The invention was...

Small Bead Polymer Reduces the Amount of Radioactive Waste Generated by Nuclear Power Plants

The disposal of the old core rods and also the reactor operation results in a large amount of low-level waste, especially contaminated cooling water. But nuclear power could solve our energy problem if only we could find a way to make it clean.

ITER: International Nuclear Fusion Reactor 40 Years from Now

The world's most expensive and exotic experiment was thought to be CERN. Few people know that the EU, US, China, and Japan have invested billions of dollars to construct the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) that would use nuclear fusion instead of fission, like all nuclear power plants do today.

Moon’s Energy-Rich Helium-3 Could Get Harvested by Moon Express

Naveen Jain owns Moon Express, a company whose aim is to extract helium-3 from the Moon, a huge energy resource not available here on...

Scientists Theorize One of the Problems Facing Nuclear Fusion

Fusion reactors are thought to be the mothers of all power plants. They'll emit no gases, eat up no polluting resources and provide all...

Possible Solution for Storing Nuclear Waste Comes From MIT

The earthquake that hit Japan recently has got every state with nuclear waste thinking: what if the leak should happen to us? What then? So the United States are currently reviewing their nuclear waste policy in search of a better way to store residues. Otherwise, the current facilities are a somewhat easy target for natural disasters and terrorist attacks.
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Newfound Bacteria Gobble Up Hazardous, er, Nuclear Waste

Before Halo, Need for Speed and even Super Mario, there was PacMan.  No, not the boxer from the Philippines who eats away Latino boxers...
Could Decommissioned or even Functional Nuclear Reactor Cooling Towers Be Adapted to Generate Wind Power?

Nuclear Power Stations Could be Converted to Generate Wind Power

It may look like a nuclear cooling tower, but this ingenious wind power device uses the power of the sun to generate its own...

Affordable, Accessible Fusion Power: A Reality in “Years, Not Decades”

Fusion – “the process that powers the sun” – releases energy when two atomic nuclei bump to each other, fusing together, resulting in one...

Todd Ditmire’s Petawatt Laser: One Step Closer to Nuclear Fusion

Todd Ditmire, from the University of Texas, has invented a laser device that can produce petawatt power through a process of chirping, that takes a short light pulse (150 femtoseconds) and stretches it out in time, amplifies it to higher energy and then recompresses it to about 100 femtoseconds in time, obtaining 190 joules of energy.