the device that initiates the nuclear reaction. This required not only careful planning, rigorous training and brazen lying, but also astounding turns of luck. And in contrast to the known KGB ...

The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration has released final documents on the assassination of former president John F Kennedy (JFK) in 1963. The administration released more than ...

The rush to produce mini nuclear reactors on the cheap might have a short half-life. In search of vast quantities of power ...

They always quote instances of people near nuclear reactors suffering from radiation-related health hazards. The other side responds by downplaying the dangers, and in its casualness displays ...

Nuclear reactors could someday power a chemical plant in Texas, making it the first with such a facility onsite. The factory, which makes plastics and other materials, could become a model for ...

And if that wasn't enough to give a nuclear engineer a haunted look, there's the problem of fabricating the fuel for the reactor. You can't use metallic uranium like in conventional fuel rods.

The first large-scale equipment - the feedwater reserve tank - has been placed within the turbine building of unit 3 at ...

Chinese nuclear engineers have discovered a critical inefficiency issue in Nasa’s lunar nuclear reactor design – but, they claim, minor structural adjustments could slash fuel consumption by ...

Advanced reactors, called small modular reactors and microreactors, produce a fraction of the energy produced by the conventional nuclear reactors built around the world for the last 50 years.

Nuclear plants are prime targets in wartime Ukraine. Renewables are safer, cheaper—and already on the rise.

Till now, under the India-US civil nuclear deal, US firms could export nuclear reactors and equipment to India, but forbid them from any design work or manufacturing of nuclear equipment in India.