The stakes of the “race to fusion” are dramatic. Commercial fusion has the potential to deliver nearly unlimited energy by ...

A 13-foot robot nicknamed Godzilla is being engineered to assemble components inside ITER, the massive fusion reactor taking ...

China breaks a historic barrier in nuclear fusion, bringing the dream of nearly infinite energy closer to reality.

Fusion power moves closer to commercialization. Storing data for 10,000 years. Why AI won’t necessarily take your job. All ...

A persistent asymmetry in fusion exhaust has challenged researchers for years. New simulations show that plasma core rotation, working together with cross-field drifts, determines where particles land ...

At the same time, a current of cold electrons travels toward the heated plasma from the opposite direction. When the two meet, the plasma develops filament-shaped instabilities that SLAC’s facilities ...

New simulations from Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory suggest that deliberately engineering plasma rotation inside tokamak fusion reactors could dramatically reduce the heat loads that destroy ...

A 0.5-tonne superconducting magnet recently hovered silently inside a 5-meter-wide vacuum chamber, which marked ...

Nuclear fusion combines light hydrogen atoms to release energy, similar to the sun's processes. Fusion reactors are ...

New Zealand-based fusion energy startup OpenStar Technologies says it has become the first commercial company in the world to successfully create and confine plasma using a levitated dipole reactor.

When in operation, this space inside the Wendelstein 7-X fusion reactor contains plasma hotter than the sun. Paolo Verzone Wearing a clean white lab suit complete with white shoes and gloves, National ...

A research team led by Prof. Huang Qunying from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science has ...