The U.S. Department of Energy now has two major supercomputing systems aimed at accelerating fusion energy research through ...

Natura Resources LLC (Natura), a developer of advanced liquid-fueled molten salt reactors, continues to make progress advancing the reactor physics and safety analysis underpinning its reactor ...

The Uncertainty Engine is guiding research in fusion plasma physics. Could similar approaches benefit fission research as well?

Estimating things that exist is generally easy, but when it comes to estimating things that do not exist, it’s more difficult. This is something physicists from Poland and the UK are well aware of. To ...

Sept. 26, 2023 — Nuclear energy is responsible for approximately one-fifth of total electricity used in the U.S., and nearly half of the country’s renewable electricity. Most of the reactors quietly, ...

Scientists in the US have recently developed a powerful new digital test bed, the ...

Thermonuclear reaction rates power the models that explain how stars live, explode and create the elements. A new study co-authored by NC State faculty member Richard Longland provides a comprehensive ...

What governs the speed at which raindrops fall, sediment settles in river estuaries, and matter is ejected during a supernova? These questions circle around one, deceitfully simple factor: the rate at ...

Physicists have discovered a surprising new “Island of Inversion” in a place no one expected: among nuclei where the number ...