At this point in time, nuclear energy supplies approximately 6% of the energy generated and utilized by the entire world. The heat and electric energy is obtained by splitting the nucleus of an atom via nuclear fission in highly sophisticated and complex nuclear plants built around the world. However,...

Gov Gary Herbert said nuclear power must play a significant role at Utah’s future energy portfolio and with a 10 year plan that will be unveiled will push the requirement of nuclear energy as well as the traditional fossil fuels and renewable sources. The Japanese nuclear power plant disaster that...

For most people in the world today the drive for green energy is the central issue behind most decisions being made. Typically when green energy is mentioned the two most common concepts that comes to people’s mind is solar and wind energy, but at the same time just a few short decades ago nuclear...

Nuclear fission is the process where the nucleus of a large atom splits into smaller, approximately same-sized nuclei after the absorption of a free neutron. The resulting products are more free neutrons, two smaller, stable nuclei and energy, in various forms including gamma radiation. Nuclear fission...

Nuclear fusion is a process by which the nuclei of lighter elements come together to form heavier elements. If the interacting nuclei are of elements with low atomic numbers then large quantities of energy are released. More energy is released per nuclear fusion reaction than for nuclear fission reactions....