Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

The explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant turned a routine safety test into a slow-motion war against an invisible enemy, fought while the ruined reactor kept burning. As the graphite core ...

China's EAST nuclear fusion reactor has successfully kept plasma stable at extreme densities, passing a major fusion milestone and potentially bringing humanity closer to wielding near-limitless clean ...

Inside every nuclear reactor is an invisible orchestra of particles at work. Neutrons collide with heavy atoms, splitting ...

R esearchers have been able to experimentally enter, for the first time, a new nuclear fusion regime, with plasma density ...