Nuclear decay, neutron capture, fission, and fusion are the four major nuclear reactions. The understanding, use, and control of nuclear reactions is one of the most profound scientific accomplishments. Although chemical reactions of everyday...

In nuclear physics, a nuclear reaction is a process in which two nuclei or nuclear particles collide to produce products different from the initial particles. In principle a reaction can involve more than two particles colliding, but because the...

The most surprising thing about the recent news that the United States was once again capable of making nuclear weapons was the muted reaction it received. The United States is desperately looking for weapons of mass destruction - possibly including nuclear arms - in...

(PART 1 OF 2) The river that arcs around the edges of the plutonium factory is not the bathtub stream that one might expect in the Engineered West, all fat and listless and stoppered up behind a hydroelectric dam. On the contrary, this...

A three-year veil of secrecy in the name of national security was used to keep the public in the dark about the handling of highly enriched uranium at a nuclear fuel processing plant _ including a leak that could have caused a deadly, uncontrolled nuclear...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission reversed a three-year secrecy policy and said Tuesday it would release hundreds of documents involving the troubled operations of a Tennessee nuclear fuel processing plant.The commission said it had directed its staff to review and make public some 1,900 documents that...