Unit 1 at the Taipingling nuclear power plant has attained a sustained chain reaction for the first time, China General ...

A small US nuclear startup has quietly crossed a threshold that most young fission companies only talk about, achieving a self-sustaining chain reaction in a test system without ever boiling water or ...

The ore was recovered in the early 1970s and completely stumped scientists, until they realized it was evidence of something ...

My father, Donald Schover, was an electronics research assistant at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (or Met Lab)—the same lab where Enrico Fermi and his team achieved the first ...

TOKYO (AP) — The world’s largest nuclear power plant restarted Wednesday in north-central Japan for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown, as resource-poor Japan accelerates atomic ...

Fukushima nuclear plant operator to restart reactor at another plant, reviving safety concerns - The utility that operates the Fukushima plant that melted down in 2011 is to restart a reactor at the ...

VIENNA (AP) — The United States and Russia have both recently threatened to resume nuclear testing, alarming the international community and jeopardizing a global norm against such tests. Experts say ...

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