Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...

Can fusion reactors be used to produce weapons? No. Although hydrogen bombs do use fusion reactions, they require an additional fission bomb to detonate. Working conditions of a magnetically-confined ...

So why not the atomic bomb? Nazi Germany ... configured in a hollow shell in order to provoke both nuclear fission and nuclear fusion reactions. It is not clear whether this test generated ...

There is the material for nuclear fission bombs and nuclear fusion bombs. – There is uranium throughout the Earth’s crust and the solar system formed from the same material. Missions to the moon and ...

Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion ...

On Earth, nuclear fusion has been harnessed for thermonuclear weapons like hydrogen bombs. However ... Nuclear fusion and nuclear fission are two fundamental nuclear reactions that release ...

It’s rarely appreciated just how much more complicated nuclear fusion is than nuclear fission. Whereas the latter ... it in a way that’s repeatable — bombs don’t count — and in a way ...

Scientists are conducting experiments to generate clean energy through fusion, the same sub-atomic reaction that powers our Sun, with the aim of constructing plants that produce more energy than they ...

China plans to start construction of the world’s first fusion-fission power plant, with the aim of generating 100 megawatts ...