Researchers have identified rare proton emissions that reveal how the neck of a nucleus stretches and snaps, providing a new ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are helping to enable the next generation of abundant, affordable nuclear energy by combining 80 years of know-how with the ...

Outdone only by nuclear fusion, the process of nuclear fission releases enormous amounts of energy. The ‘spicy rocks’ that are at the core of both natural and artificial fission reactors are generally ...

Researchers from the University of Washington, Seattle, and Los Alamos National Laboratory used the Summit supercomputer to conduct the first fully microscopic, quantum many-body simulation of a ...