Taken from the March 2021 issue of Physics World, where it first appeared under the headline "Rethinking nuclear for a greener planet" Troels Schönfeldt, co-founder and chief executive of Danish start ...
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AI’s Power Problem Could Launch a Nuclear Renaissance

AI’s growth has outpaced America’s power grid. Nuclear energy could be the key to powering the AI era—if policy, permitting, ...
In large nuclear reactors, people make these adjustments manually, but that can be cost-prohibitive for small reactors. The ...
In fusion, hydrogen isotopes are heated to extremely high temperatures until they form plasma – superheated, electrically ...
More than 40 researchers from international institutes collaborated to develop and implement a method that enables measurements with unprecedented precision. This sets new standards for theories and ...
Texas A&M physics graduate student Ryan Amberger getting hands-on experience in the art and science of making targets at Argonne National Laboratory. Ryan Amberger, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department ...
The last week of July heralded not one but two scientific breakthroughs that have left the academic community abuzz and may bring us one step closer to the holy grail of fusion energy. Nuclear fusion ...
An experimental technique that started life in nuclear and particle physics is now being used to measure chemical reactions inside the human body and to help diagnose cancer and heart disease in ...
The positively charged protons in atomic nuclei should actually repel each other, and yet even heavy nuclei with many protons and neutrons stick together. The so-called strong interaction is ...