at least as many neutrons are produced as are consumed in the fission process or non-productively absorbed in other non-fissionable materials. Because the neutrons of a hybrid are supplied ...

They predicted the blast weeks in advance, reported it almost as soon as it happened, named its fissionable material, estimated its energy and followed the spreading cloud of radioactivity as it ...

Who can doubt, if the entire body of the world's scientists and engineers had adequate amounts of fissionable material with which to test and develop their ideas, that this capability would ...

The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, a former base for atomic bomb testing, has lead to a cluster of health issues.

In Hanford, Washington, three reactors were built to extract plutonium (another element with atoms that could be split) from a non-fissionable type of uranium. Finally a lab for the design and ...

In November 2023 Ishikawa Prefecture held a nuclear disaster drill, recalls science writer Takashi Soeda for the magazine ...

As the climate warms and Arctic permafrost thaws, some of the toxic elements locked away in it are starting to emerge and could contaminate the water supplies that many northern communities rely on.

An Idaho Power representative recently said they have doubts about the company’s ability to reach their goal of 100% clean ...

At the same time, it operated a nuclear power station – the infamous Chernobyl plant – with three functional reactors designed to produce plutonium suitable for enrichment into weapons-grade ...

“Ultimately, over 90 percent of the cost of the Manhattan Project went into building the plants and producing the fissionable ...