Physicists have solved a long-standing puzzle about mercury’s nuclear fission by using a five-dimensional model that ...

Langevin approach developed by an international team of researchers, including members from Science Tokyo, accurately ...

A five-dimensional model has successfully predicted the asymmetric fission of mercury isotopes, offering new insights into ...

The "Fat Man" atomic bomb, dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945, remains one of the most significant and terrifying examples of the destructive power of nuclear weapons. In this video, we ...

In modern weapons, plutonium fission ignites a second, more powerful stage in which hydrogen atoms undergo nuclear fusion, releasing even more energy. The U.S. hasn't made these pits in a ...

The outstanding characteristic of 9 of the fission products described in this report, as well as neptunium and plutonium, to be accumulated and tenaciously retained by the skeleton has a most ...

Nuclear policy specialist David Albright told Nature how his organization is monitoring for damage to nuclear sites following ...

If the right kind of material is packed together in the right way, such as refined uranium or plutonium, a fission chain reaction, where more and more atoms are split by the neutrons emitted from ...

According to Campain for Nuclear Disarmament (CNDUK), the heart of a nuclear explosion can reach numerous million degrees ...

The idea of leaving rapidly decaying nuclear waste is an important advantage. I’m not superstitious about fission power, but having waste products that last 100,000 years is a serious problem ...

The Atomic Energy Commission, says Stanford Institute, has enormous quantities of fission products in the underground storage at Hanford. Before they are put freely on the market, however ...