NANO Nuclear Energy Inc has assembled the first reactor core hardware of its ZEUS solid core battery reactor for initial non-nuclear testing. The fuel element being prepared for testing (Image: NANO ...

A brief recap of the Liberty ship and then some information on Russian work on nuclear thermal rockets and then an embedded document that compares several advanced rocket concepts. The liberty ship is ...

Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

Kurt Terrani wants to accelerate the future of nuclear energy—so he’s turned to its past. Over the last year and a half, Terrani and a team of physicists, engineers, and computer scientists at Oak ...

* 300,000 m/s is possible with hydrogen. The 39 day mission to Mars using VASIMR propulsion takes 200 Megawatts total input power driving 4-to-8 yet to be designed VASIMR engines that will sink ...

Schematic images of the disaster struck reactors of the nuclear power plant Fukushima Dai-ichi in Japan, helping to understand the various reports about explosions and fires. There are 6 reactor ...