The Chinese government has claimed that it has been "forced" to develop nuclear weapons as a United States official issued a warning about China's weapons of mass destruction program. Newsweek has ...

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After all, large nuclear power plants have made a habit, at least in the west, of blowing their initial budgets and running years late. Take Sizewell C, a planned 3.2 gigawatt plant in eastern ...

Chinese researchers have allegedly developed a new high-power microwave (HPM) weapon with power equivalent to electromagnetic energy released by a nuclear explosion. Reportedly also relatively ...

You can read the rest of them here. While nuclear reactors have been generating power around the world for over 70 years, the current moment is one of potentially radical transformation for the ...

At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached the consensus that the world would be better off with fewer nuclear weapons. That era is now over.

Undeniably, ambitions for a nuclear renaissance are thriving. The UK is building its first nuclear power station in 30 years, France plans a new fleet of 14 reactors and, in total worldwide, 100 new ...

In other words, it's engineering time. As engineers who have been working on fundamental science and applied engineering in nuclear fusion for decades, we've seen much of the science and physics ...

As the world became more dangerous in 2024, the use of its most dangerous weapons has become more likely. This trajectory raises the stakes for the new Trump administration as it tries to end wars ...

It includes testing air defenses near a key nuclear facility and preparing for exercises in waterways vital to the global oil trade. The military flexing seems aimed at projecting strength, but doubts ...

NuScale Power is an upstart looking to build small-scale modular nuclear power plants. Nuclear power is not new, but it is going through something of a renaissance today. One of the driving forces ...