Nucleon numbers The research team found a new way of calculating the size of atomic nuclei such as the ones represented on this grid. (Courtesy: Serdar Elhatisari) A new way of calculating the size of ...

A newly released Android app, Nuclear WatchDawg, reveals where nuclear power plants and associated safety and environmental concerns are within a fifty mile radius anywhere in the U.S.

Charge radii differences in mirror nuclei, which have opposite numbers of protons and neutrons, can help constrain parameters for the equation of state nuclear matter, which describes the properties ...

Physicists in Europe and North America have measured the radius of an unusual beryllium isotope containing a single neutron a long way from the rest of the nuclear core. Although the radii of other ...

REFORM, Mo. • The cooling tower for the Callaway nuclear plant dominates the view from Ruth and Henry Lindemann's front porch — and they like the panorama. Ruth, in fact, has a photo of the tower and ...

For the first time, researchers from the PRISMA + Cluster of Excellence have determined the charge radius of helium-3 and thus also the exact difference to the radius of helium-4. This precision ...

Paul Dorfman is founder and chair of the Nuclear Consulting Group, an independent, non-profit virtual institute dedicated to providing expert research and analysis of nuclear issues. The overwhelming ...