Physicists have solved a long-standing puzzle about mercury’s nuclear fission by using a five-dimensional model that ...

A five-dimensional (5D) Langevin approach developed by an international team of researchers, including members from Science Tokyo, accurately reproduces complex fission fragment distributions and ...

As the temperature of the material decreases, heavier nuclei are produced from lighter nuclei by a sequence of neutron captures and weak interaction processes. However, different to the rapid neutron ...

In lighter nuclei, filled nuclear shells are known to also influence trends in the nuclear charge radii. Using laser spectroscopy methods, subtle changes in the atomic structure can be analyzed, ...

As the temperature of the material decreases, heavier nuclei are produced from lighter nuclei by a sequence of neutron captures and weak interaction processes. However, ...

Fusion happens when two lighter nuclei are combined to produce a single heavier nucleus. During that process, a significant amount of clean energy is released.

Fusion reactors come in all shapes and sizes, but can mostly be separated into three groups, defined by how they contain the super-hot plasma needed to combine lighter nuclei into heavier ones.

Nuclear fusion — when two lighter nuclei combine to form a single nucleus, releasing a large burst of energy — is a prospect that has both tantalized and eluded scientists for decades.

Scientists have achieved nuclear fusion ignition in a laboratory setting – a significant breakthrough in a field that could one day provide a clean energy alternative to fossil fuels.