Search results for Nuclear Energy

General Physics Jul 3, 2025

Understanding the impact of radiation on silicon carbide devices for space applications

The first results of the ETH Zurich and ANSTO collaboration focused on silicon carbide (SiC) devices have been reported in two publications.

Analytical Chemistry Jun 24, 2025

Engineered composite materials offer broad-spectrum synergistic radiation shielding

In a recent breakthrough, Dr. Huo Zhipeng and his student Chen Zuoyang from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a new class of PbWO4 filler-reinforced B4C/HDPE composites ...

General Physics Jun 18, 2025

5D model accurately predicts nuclear fission in elements beyond uranium and plutonium

A five-dimensional (5D) Langevin approach developed by an international team of researchers, including members from Science Tokyo, accurately reproduces complex fission fragment distributions and kinetic energies in medium-mass ...

Political science Jun 16, 2025

Iran-Israel 'threshold war' has rewritten nuclear escalation rules

Israel's conflict with Iran represents far more than another Middle Eastern crisis—it marks the emergence of a dangerous new chapter in nuclear rivalries that has the potential to reshape global proliferation risks for decades ...

General Physics Jun 16, 2025

What is uranium enrichment and how is it used for nuclear bombs? A scientist explains

Late last week, Israel targeted three of Iran's key nuclear facilities—Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow, killing several Iranian nuclear scientists. The facilities are heavily fortified and largely underground, and there are conflicting ...

Space Exploration Jun 2, 2025

Advancing deep space travel with nuclear propulsion

How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science ...

General Physics May 15, 2025

Theoretical framework refines understanding of the strong nuclear force

A new study published in Physical Review D titled, "Extending the Bridge Connecting Chiral Lagrangians and QCD Gaussian Sum-Rules for Low-Energy Hadronic Physics," offers significant advancements in the understanding of the ...

General Physics May 8, 2025

Flavor symmetry of the high-energy world does not work as expected

In collisions of argon and scandium atomic nuclei, scientists from the international NA61/SHINE experiment have observed a clear anomaly indicative of a violation of one of the most important symmetries of the quark world: ...

Political science Apr 30, 2025

Renewables, coal or nuclear? Generational preferences in Australia may play a surprising role

In an otherwise unremarkable election campaign, the major parties are promising sharply different energy blueprints for Australia. Labor is pitching a high-renewables future powered largely by wind, solar, hydroelectricity ...

General Physics Apr 29, 2025

Advanced digital detector array enhances charged-particle decay studies

Exotic nuclei near and beyond the proton drip line exhibit a range of unique decay processes, including β-delayed proton emission, α decay, and direct proton radioactivity. Spectroscopic studies utilizing high-efficiency, ...

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