Damien JemisonThe National Ignition Facility in California uses powerful lasers to spark fusion reactionsDeep under the Nevada desert in the 1980s the US conducted secret nuclear weapons research.Among the ...

At Leibstadt, Switzerland's largest and youngest nuclear power plant, half of the uranium supply currently comes from Russia. There, as elsewhere, there's a scramble to source more uranium from ...

BBCThe Tongan capital Nuku’alofa was buzzing during the Pacific Islands ForumTonga’s sleepy capital Nuku’alofa was buzzing last week as leaders from across the Pacific region descended upon it for ...

BBCPower is flowing from the Shetland Isles to mainland Britain for the first time as the UK's most productive onshore windfarm comes on stream.SSE says its 103-turbine project, known ...

Sphen the gentoo penguin - one half of a world-famous same-sex "power couple" - has died in Australia, aged 11.He and his partner Magic shot to global stardom in ...

SSTLArtwork: Tyche will collect images from an altitude of 500kmThe UK military is about to launch its first ever dedicated Earth-imaging satellite.Called Tyche, the washing machine-sized spacecraft will have ...

Since the early 1970s, NIF has been working closely with optics manufacturers like Zygo Corporation and specialist glassmaker SCHOTT to fine-tune and supply replacement parts, as well as debris ...

Owen AndersonThe intense electrical activity resulted in widespread power outagesTens of thousands of households across the Republic of Ireland are without power after thunderstorms, with hundreds of households in ...

More hits were reported on 27 April and then again on 8 May, though we have not been able to find any verifiable footage of these so far. This ...

UK Atomic Energy AuthorityFusion has often been criticised for always being '10 years away'The project to build a nuclear fusion reactor in Nottinghamshire has been described as the "UK's ...

The Light Gas Gun at the University of Kent is an unwieldy device which, to me, looks more like a lathe than a gun.Despite its lumbering appearance the gun ...

There's more than just cars and empty spaces in this car park. Huge arrays of angled solar panels sit atop jet black steel supports, soaking up the sun and ...