In the wake of last month’s meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, the Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) will bring world-renowned nuclear physicist Dr. Kelvin ...

Purdue University and Duke Energy will host the next installment of the Understanding Tomorrow’s Nuclear Energy Lecture Series in January. Kathryn D. Huff, assistant secretary for nuclear energy in ...

A series of 10 free lectures at the University of Chicago will explore the bewildering number and variety of energy transformations that make everyday conveniences possible. These are easy to take for ...

Twice every year, the University of Chicago’s Enrico Fermi Institute sponsors the Arthur Holly Compton lecture series, which provide the public an inside look at the questions about the universe with ...

This module gives a brief overview of basics of nuclear physics, neutron slowing down, neutron transport, neutron diffusion, reactor kinetics and fuel depletion using python as a tool for the analysis ...

Nuclear fusion — the reaction that produces light and heat from the sun — could be a clean and unlimited global energy supplier in the future. But the process of harnessing the energy in a controlled ...

Sometimes I think that physicists can dwell too much in the past. Scientific papers, for example, often begin with a potted history of the field and it’s only in the second page that something new is ...

In his school days Gamow became very much interested in astronomy, examining the starry sky through a little telescope, his father's present on the thirteenth birthday of his son. Gamow then decided ...