On a cold December afternoon in 1951, four ordinary 200-watt lightbulbs glowed in a modest brick building near Arco, Idaho.

With the world’s largest reserves of 1.07 million tonnes, thorium is India’s second biggest energy resource, after coal— ...

Rudolf Peierls, Science "...provides detailed discussion of the many experiments that made up the project, including the implosion and gun assembly programs and the interesting consequences of ...

is the spent fuel from the fission reaction. These consist of roughly 3% waste isotopes, 1% plutonium isotopes, and 96% uranium isotopes. This waste is high in transuranic elements, which have ...

Fermi, among others, realized that nuclear fission was accompanied ... (If the chain reaction started with uranium, it also created a byproduct, plutonium, a better fuel for a nuclear weapon.) ...