"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Clean and sustainable nuclear energy may sound like a washed up, post-war dream, but the modern ...

Surprise! Fusion startup Zap Energy says it will be developing fission reactors alongside its fusion devices.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems took another step this week in its race to become the first to get the same power fueling the sun ...

Commentary: Fusion won’t replace fission policy. Even with breakthroughs, deployment still depends on institutions, financing ...

While nuclear fission derives energy from splitting atomic nuclei, nuclear fusion does so by joining them, releasing energy in the process. Though both atomic reactions produce energy by modifying ...

There are three things worth knowing about this week’s startling announcement of a breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology. First, this could one day offer a huge new source of energy. Second, it ...

The nation's top regulatory body for nuclear power plants and other nuclear materials, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has officially voted to regulate nuclear fusion differently than fission. The ...

Clean and sustainable nuclear energy may sound like a washed up, post-war dream, but the modern reality of this power source is much more complicated. For one, nuclear energy in the coming decades ...