On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), ...

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Wash., used her powerful position in Congress to help Tri-Cities science, environmental and historical projects.

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Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.

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Prof. Nuno Filipe Gomes Loureiro was shot multiple times in his own home on December 15, 2025, and died in hospital the ...

The essay appears to have been written for an Introduction to Nuclear Energy class (PH241) that Christian McCaffrey took in the spring of 2016.

Researchers from the High Energy Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute (PRI) in Japan and their international collaborators have made a discovery that bridges ...

In the 1960s, a group of physicists and historians began a massive project meant to catalogue and record the history of quantum physics. It was called Sources for History of Quantum Physics (SHQP). As ...