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A sign of how serious Beijing is taking this new energy arms race emerged last week when the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it ...

A hands-on workshop at Idaho State University is helping train professionals to safely handle the fuels that will power the next generation of nuclear reactors.

Experimental observations of the half life of rutherfordium-252 demonstrate that its stability lies well within the limits ...

The tale of splitting the atom isn't just about America—it's a journey from New Zealand to Manchester, led by the brilliant ...

Physicists from both New Zealand and Britain have been credited with splitting the atom — but there is consensus that it was not an American.

Donald Trump claimed in his inauguration speech that the US was the first to split the atom - despite the fact that Kiwi Ernest Rutherford was the first to ...

the Atomic Energy Commission announced that this month “men and materials will begin moving to the Pacific proving grounds [for] weapons tests of all categories,” i.e., fission and thermonuclear.

Without public debate, indeed with almost no public awareness of the problem, a big and awesome decision, once postponed, was soon to be made. U.S. scientists believed that they could manufacture ...

In total, 27 atoms of Rf-252 decaying by fission with a half-life of 13 microseconds were detected. Thanks to the fast digital data acquisition system developed by GSI/FAIR's Experiment ...