Left off publications due to Nazi prejudice, this Jewish woman lost her rightful place in the scientific pantheon as the ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency describes said plants as nuclear fission reactors where the fuel and/or coolant is a molten salt. That molten salt liquifies at elevated temperatures and can ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that talks with President Trump about “ownership” of Ukrainian nuclear power plants focused only on the Zaporizhzhia plant, which is currently under ...

After the fall of the Soviet Union, Ukraine inherited a significant nuclear stockpile. Despite having these nuclear weapons, Ukraine relinquished them due to financial burdens and geopolitical risks.

Lise Meitner (1878-1968): A brilliant physicist, Lise Meitner was the first to explain the process of nuclear fission when uranium was bombarded with neutrons. Although her male colleagues ...

EXPERIMENTS on the processes arising in thorium under neutron bombardment have shown that nuclear fission is induced only by fast neutrons of energies of about 2 Mev. or more. There exists also a ...

It’s a remarkable turn of events that portends a new nuclear landscape. America’s European and Asian allies haven’t contemplated their nuclear futures this earnestly — and openly — since ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Soprano Lise Davidsen performs as Leonore, during a dress rehearsal of Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” at New ...

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Scientists like Marie Curie, who won a Nobel Prize in 1903 for her work on radioactivity, and Lise Meitner, who helped discover nuclear fission, proved that women can also excel in this field.

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors ...