The research team recently demonstrated the first use of a heat pipe to cool a small nuclear reactor and power a Stirling engine Joint DOE and NASA team demonstrates simple, robust fission r... Read more
Cosmic-ray tomography Musing on muons AMERICANS may no longer fret about being showered with nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles, but the idea that an atom bomb might enter their country in a... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Self-repairing materials within nuclear reactors may one day become a reality as a result of research by Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists. In a paper appearing M... Read more