MINOT — It was grotesque to watch as Doug Burgum degraded himself, sacrificing his ideals and legacy on the altar of ambition, running a bizarre campaign for president and positioning himself among the yes-men surrounding President Donald Trump. But the former governor and current Secretary of the Interior isn’t wrong about federal energy policy. Mr. … Read more
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) warned on Sunday that “something sinister may be afoot” after 11 scientists, mostly associated with the U.S. nuclear and space research programs, were reported to have died or disappeared under mysterious circumstances, raising urgent national security concerns. Comer told “Fox & Friends Weekend” that when he first heard … Read more
Muon-catalyzed fusion is one of those strange concepts that holds enough promise to intrigue researchers, but stubbornly resists practical application. The central idea underlying this process is to replace the electrons in the hydrogen with heavier particles called muons, which draw the atomic nuclei so close together that nuclear fusion (a process that occurs at … Read more
Track your investments for free with Simply Wall St, the portfolio command center trusted by over 7 million individual investors worldwide. The White House has directed U.S. government agencies to deploy nuclear reactors for space use, with the goal of having them in orbit by 2028 and on the moon by 2030. This new federal … Read more
Scientists in the United States have been testing spin-polarized nuclear fuel in tokamaks operating at about 100 million degrees Celsius to explore a more efficient path to nuclear fusion through particle alignment. The project, led by a research team at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, aims to assess whether … Read more