Pulsar Fusion Wants To Build the World's First Nuclear Fusion Rocket Engine, Is It Legit?
18 Sep 2023, 19:14 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It might be difficult not to write off Pulsar Fusion's operation as little more than weapons-grade ambition. But their founder and CEO seems dead set.
Germany and Spain Declare War On Nuclear Energy, Here's Why They May Regret It
16 Mar 2023, 23:01 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's possible Germany, and its anti-atomic coalition may one day come to regret their decision to turn their back on nuclear energy.
U.S. Department of Energy To Upgrade Its Aging Fleet of Nuclear Reactors, Here's How
3 Mar 2023, 00:49 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Under the guidelines of what's dubbed the Civil Nuclear Credit Program (CNCP), the first round of federal grants is aimed at aging domestic nuclear plants
Thorium: The "87-Octane" of Nuclear Fission Fuels
12 Feb 2023, 18:19 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / While it's pretty darn hard to get our hands on any more tritium, or even sustainable nuclear fusion for that matter, there are always other options
Stellarator Reactors: The Once Forgotten, All-American Approach to Nuclear Fusion
31 Jan 2023, 02:32 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / 25 years after his death in 1997, perhaps the most underappreciated theoretical physicist in American history might be about be vindicated
ITER: A Global Scientific Dream Team Building the World's Largest Fusion Reactor
29 Jan 2023, 19:43 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It took the world's two preeminent global superpowers coming together for a shared purpose of deciphering the same mechanisms that power every star
Tritium: A “High-Octane”, Ultra-Rare Fusion Fuel We Can’t Make Nearly Enough Of
28 Jan 2023, 00:38 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's easy to forget that nuclear fusion and fission are two sides of the same coin. But nuclear fission reactors will be crucial to making fuel for fusion.
South Korea Stands With Japan, Will Not Back Down on Nuclear Energy
18 Jan 2023, 17:43 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Like their strategic neighbors in the Japanese, South Korea aims to ditch the stigma behind nuclear energy in any of its forms.
Helion Energy Built the V8 of Nuclear Fusion Reactors, Company Rep Explains How
3 Feb 2023, 18:06 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Though we're far from nuclear engineers, Helion did a wonderful job explaining Helion's fusion reactors in a way regular folks can understand
France's Nuclear Energy Grid Is the Toast of Europe, But It's Not Enough to Save Everyone
3 Jan 2023, 23:24 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The French nuclear reactor fleet dotted across the French landscape were built to solve the 1973 OAPEC-driven oil crisis. Some decay has taken place since then
11 Years Post Fukushima, Japan Won't Back Down From Nuclear Energy
25 Dec 2022, 23:02 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / According to reports from NPR, Japan has recently backtracked a substantial amount of the anti-nuclear political sentiment held since the Fukushima disaster
Here's How Nuclear Fusion Could Change the Auto Industry Forever, It's Great News for EVs
24 Dec 2022, 21:42 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / What does this mean for the auto industry? Let's put it this way. If you think electric vehicles will be expensive to charge, it won't be with fusion energy
Nuclear Reactors Could Solve the Planet's Energy Issues, But Only if We Let Them
23 Dec 2022, 17:43 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We can already hear people shouting that it's not the late 1950s anymore. Well, friends, nuclear energy has made leaps and bounds since the atomic age
Helion Trenta: A Nuclear Fusion Reactor Unlike Anything You've Seen Before
20 Dec 2022, 19:12 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Founded less than a decade ago in 2013, Helion Energy's already staked its claim as one of the most important private alternative energy companies
Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Paves the Way to Limitless, Cheap Energy
12 Dec 2022, 10:00 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / The U.S. government is set to announce a breakthrough in nuclear fusion after producing a reaction that creates a net energy gain
UK Scientists Make Huge Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion Tech, Here's Why it's Historic
18 Feb 2022, 21:06 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The UK-based Joint European Torus (JET) Laboratory in Oxfordshire has been at the forefront of nuclear fusion research and innovation since 1984
Nuclear Fusion Ignition Gets Closer and May Answer Global Demand for Energy
20 Aug 2021, 11:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / That’s the same process the sun uses to generate the energy we depend on to live on this planet, and it produces few radioactive residues.