A pivotal scene in the explosive hit biopic and Best Picture winner, "Oppenheimer," involves America's top scientists discussing whether or not to develop an even more potent nuclear weapon — the ...

in “Chain Reactions,” on the element that started this atomic revolution—uranium. This is not a book on the physics of this historically important element, and the story of the atom bomb’s ...

The way a nuclear reactor works is by arranging uranium in just the right positions ... In order to build an atomic bomb, the Manhattan Project first needed to prove that a chain reaction would ...

IT has recently been shown that the number 1 of neutrons liberated 2 in the nuclear fission of a uranium nucleus is sufficiently high to make the realization of a self-perpetuating reaction chain ...

So why not the atomic bomb? Nazi Germany ... When slowed down and controlled in a "uranium machine" (nuclear reactor), these chain reactions could generate energy; when uncontrolled, they would ...

Iran has multiple major sites associated with its rapidly advancing nuclear program, now the subject of several rounds of ...

The dispute over uranium enrichment is the flashpoint in U.S.-Iran talks, with Tehran refusing to scale back and Washington warning of weaponization.

Iran’s foreign minister said Tehran will continue its uranium enrichment program regardless of whether a nuclear deal with ...

Chinese researchers have a new method to extract uranium from seawater twice as cheaply as previous technologies. Their ...