This process, used in nuclear physics to synthesize artificial superheavy nuclei, seems at first glance as simple as it is brutal: take a heavy nucleus (here plutonium-244) and bombard it with lighter ...

Neutrinos are very mysterious particles,” says Damien Dornic, one of the co-authors of a new paper published February 12 in ...

Nuclear fusion is the principle by which the sun emits light and heat, involving the combination of lighter atomic nuclei into heavier ones, releasing a tremendous amount of energy in the process.

Researchers from Kyushu University, Japan have revealed how a special type of force within an atom's nucleus, known as the three-nucleon force, impacts nuclear stability. The study, published in ...

The three-nucleon force could play a key role in understanding how heavy elements form from the fusion of lighter elements in stars. As this force grows stronger in heavier nuclei, it increases ...

About once every 200 days, two nuclei will collide and fuse together ... where they throw out α particles and decay into lighter elements within milliseconds. The Riken detectors can record ...

The Chinese state news agency Xinhua described the accomplishment as "a key step towards the development of a fusion reactor." ...

These two nuclei will repel each other and should gain ... to readjust itself by beta decay to the lower value suitable for lighter elements. Probably each part will thus give rise to a chain ...

The current idea is to vitrify the plutonium – bake it into a ceramic glass, like material – and bury it 1000 metres below in a geological disposal facility (GDF). However, the UK currently possesses ...