It’s rarely appreciated just how much more complicated nuclear fusion is than nuclear fission. Whereas the latter involves a process that happens all around us without any human involvement, and where ...

The award winning OpenMC software package is helping researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and the Massachusetts ...

Ever wondered about Fission and Fusion, then public and campus community are encouraged to attend a panel talk from 6 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 3 in the UMass Lowell Emerging Technologies and ...

Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have designed a new system that, when fully developed, would use fusion to eliminate most of the transuranic waste produced by nuclear power plants. The ...

A critical shortage of fuel for nuclear fusion reactors may have a rather counterintuitive solution. A physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) says that fusion reactor fuel could be ...