Ukraine is seriously considering developing its own nuclear bomb if the United States reduces its support in the future.

Nuclear power is facing numerous challenges, including uranium shortages, geopolitical risks, and the economic and ...

It is easy to get the impression that proposed new modular nuclear generating units will solve the problems of nuclear generation. Perhaps they will allow more nuclear electricity to be generated at a ...

U.S. researchers have concluded that China has built a land-based prototype nuclear reactor to power future aircraft carriers ...

In this capacity he had supervision of the research and development connected with, and the design, construction and ...

whether the fissionable material used was plutonium or U-235; how much of it was wasted; whether an attempt was made to get fusion (hydrogen bomb) action. Clicking Counters. Except for describing ...

And much less plutonium is needed for a bomb. According to the IAEA, the critical amount of this material for one bomb is 22 kilograms of highly enriched uranium or 9 kilograms of plutonium“,” the UP ...

“The detonation of uranium and plutonium bombs were themselves an experiment,” she says. “The ABCC then came to Japan to scientifically measure their human effects.” Survivors of the ...

The US dumped 437 plastic bags filled with lumps of plutonium that had spewed after a bomb misfired into a 33-foot crater left behind in 1958 by a nuke on Runit Island. That, and about 35 Olympic ...

On July 16, 1945, the U.S. conducted the world's first nuclear bomb test in the New Mexico desert as part of the Manhattan Project, which led to the detonations of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and ...