Search results for Nuclear Energy

Agriculture Feb 7, 2023

New Zealand island nations could produce enough food in nuclear winter, says study

New Zealand is one of only a few island nations that could continue to produce enough food to feed its population in a nuclear winter, researchers have found.

Analytical Chemistry Jan 24, 2023

Researchers report on metal alloys that could support nuclear fusion energy

At the end of 2022, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced they had observed a net energy gain through nuclear fusion for the very first time. This monumental milestone toward fusion energy represents ...

Planetary Sciences Jan 17, 2023

A hybrid fission/fusion reactor could be the best way to get through the ice on Europa

In the coming years, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) will send two robotic missions to explore Jupiter's icy moon Europa. These are none other than NASA's Europa Clipper and the ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE), ...

Materials Science Jan 4, 2023

Recent discoveries in phases of uranium oxide advance nuclear nonproliferation

The word "exotic" may not spark thoughts of uranium, but Tyler Spano's investigations of exotic phases of uranium are bringing new knowledge to the nuclear nonproliferation industry.

General Physics Dec 19, 2022

What triggers flow fluctuations in heavy-ion collision debris?

Scientists in the STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)—an atom smasher at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory—have published a comprehensive analysis aimed at determining ...

General Physics Dec 15, 2022

Hot salt, clean energy: How artificial intelligence can enhance advanced nuclear reactors

Technology developed at Argonne can help narrow the field of candidates for molten salts, a new study demonstrates.

Plasma Physics Dec 13, 2022

Nuclear fusion: harnessing the power of the stars

US researchers have finally surpassed an important milestone for nuclear fusion technology: getting more energy out than was put in.

Plasma Physics Dec 13, 2022

EXPLAINER: Why fusion could be a clean-energy breakthrough

The Department of Energy is planning an announcement Tuesday about a "major scientific breakthrough" at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of several sites worldwide where researchers have been trying to develop ...

Astronomy Dec 8, 2022

'Early dark energy' could explain the crisis in cosmology

In 1916, Einstein finished his theory of general relativity, which describes how gravitational forces alter the curvature of spacetime. Among other things, this theory predicted that the universe is expanding, which was confirmed ...

Quantum Physics Dec 6, 2022

Scientists narrow the anchor point in a quantum chromodynamics critical point search

Heavy ion collisions at the highest energies have revealed a new phase of nuclear matter with freely moving quarks and gluons, the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP). The Beam Energy Scan program at the RHIC particle accelerator, a ...

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