During the late 1970s, the United States developed a nuclear weapon designed not to flatten cities but to kill the people ...

Clean energy from nuclear fusion may soon be commercial. But leaders around the world have done little to prepare.

Hydrogen bombs cause a bigger explosion, which means the shock waves, blast, heat and radiation all have larger reach than an atomic bomb, according to Edward Morse, a professor of nuclear engineering ...

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The promise of nuclear fusion feels simple. Just as stars fuse hydrogen into heavier elements to produce energy, a fusion reactor generates massive amounts of energy by combining lightweight particles ...

The U.S. government has launched the process to develop a regulatory framework to develop fusion machines as emerging nuclear ...

In late 2022, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved a historic nuclear fusion breakthrough by creating a fusion reaction that produced more energy than the lasers used to create it. This ...