Author: Fission Today

In its first moments, the infant universe was a trillion-degree-hot soup of quarks and gluons. These elementary particles zinged around at light speed, creating a “quark-gluon plasma” that lasted for only a few millionths of a second. The primordial goo then quickly cooled, and its individual quarks and gluons fused to form the protons, neutrons, and other fundamental particles that exist today.Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland are recreating quark-gluon plasma (QGP) to better understand the universe’s starting ingredients. By smashing together heavy ions at close to light speeds, scientists can briefly dislodge quarks and gluons to create…

The ‘Peace President’ Who Bombed 10 Countries and Wants $1.5 Trillion for War SCHEERPOST,  Joshua Scheer, Donald Trump keeps insisting he’s a “peace president.” The record shows something closer to a global arsonist with better PR. In just one year of his second term, he bombed seven countries—adding to a list that now reaches ten, more than any president in U.S. history—while demanding a $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget that would eclipse the military spending of nearly the entire planet combined. This video dissects the chasm between Trump’s self‑mythology and the reality of an empire that has only expanded its reach, its violence, and…

With all of the grim news coming from the US and other places where climate protection is on a backfoot, it’s heartening to cast a glance at the EU’s Emissions Trading System, or EU ETS. Once considered a dud, this carbon market is now the EU’s most potent weapon in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Paul Hockenos reports. Credits: Andrzej Rostek | Shutterstock, All rights reserved. Last year, emissions were nearly 50 percent less than twenty years ago when EU ETS was launched. This puts the EU on track to meet its 2030 target of a 62 percent reduction of greenhouse…

The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Type One Energy and the University of Tennessee in Knoxville are partnering to establish a world-class facility that will drive American innovation and move fusion energy closer to reality. This high-heat flux (HHF) facility, located at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Bull Run Energy Complex in East Tennessee, will evaluate how materials react under extreme conditions in a fusion device. The HHF facility will accelerate the development of plasma-facing components (PFCs), which experience the harshest operational conditions in fusion energy devices, and enable both private and public entities to qualify…

Hamburg, Germany – Nearly seven decades since the US government ended nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands, a new study has revealed the impacts were far greater than what the US government has so far publicly acknowledged. According to a new study, all atolls, including the southern atolls, received radioactive fallout, but only three of the 24 atolls, all northern and inhabited at the time of fallout, received medical cancer screening.[1] “The Legacy of U.S. Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands” by the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) and commissioned by Greenpeace Germany, has comprehensively analyzed official…

TerraPower in Mega Deal with Meta for Eight 345 MW Natrium Advanced Nuclear Plants DOE Awards $2.7 Billion for Uranium Enrichment Oklo, Meta Plan 1.2 GW Nuclear Energy Development in Southern Ohio Oklo and DOE Partner to Deploy Radioisotope Pilot Facility Oklo Developing an Plutonium Fueled Fast Test Reactor Terrestrial Energy Executes DOE Agreement Under the Advanced Reactor Pilot Program ZettaJoule Targets Industrial Uses of Advanced Nuclear HTGR Technology VISTRA Inks 20-Year PPA with Meta; Uprates Planned at Three Nuclear Plants DOE Delivers HALEU Feedstock for Advanced Reactor Fuel TerraPower in Mega Deal with Meta for Eight 345 MW Natrium…

If you’re looking for hard problems, building a nuclear fusion power plant is a pretty good place to start. Fusion — the process that powers the sun — has proven to be a difficult thing to recreate here on Earth despite decades of research.“There’s something very attractive to me about the magnitude of the fusion challenge,” Hartwig says. “It’s probably true of a lot of people at MIT. I’m driven to work on very hard problems. There’s something intrinsically satisfying about that battle. It’s part of the reason I’ve stayed in this field. We have to cross multiple frontiers of…

All through this week including yesterday, 22 January 2026, ICAN partners marked the five year anniversary of the nuclear ban treaty with actions, lectures, film screenings, discussions and demonstrations.  Follow #5YearsTPNW on social media, or check out highlights below.  Over the last few days, and continuing through the weekend, ICAN partners and allies have celebrated the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as a hopeful light in what seems like an otherwise dark time for the world. We’ve heard about activities across at least three continents marking this important milestone in the history of abolishing nuclear weapons. From governmental…

America is one step closer to tapping into a new and potentially limitless clean energy source today, with the announcement from MIT spinout Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) that it plans to build the world’s first grid-scale fusion power plant in Chesterfield County, Virginia.The announcement is the latest milestone for the company, which has made groundbreaking progress toward harnessing fusion — the reaction that powers the sun — since its founders first conceived of their approach in an MIT classroom in 2012. CFS is now commercializing a suite of advanced technologies developed in MIT research labs.“This moment exemplifies the power of…

Summary comments on the Deep Geologic Repository (DGR) Project for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel. The nuclear waste will be radioactive for, say, a period of time that is close to eternity, whereas the project covers a period of 160 years.  The solution is therefore very far from permanent. We are swimming here in the middle of a pro-nuclear religion. by Miguel Deschênes, 20 Jan 26 a translation of comments submitted in French to the  Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) by Miguel Deschêne on this subject.  Seven major objections stand out: 1- Developers are not trustworthy On page v of the document,…