In fusion, hydrogen isotopes are heated to extremely high temperatures until they form plasma – superheated, electrically ...
Japanese start-up Helical Fusion said on Monday it has completed a critical performance test of a high-temperature ...
China's Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak (BEST) has installed the heaviest component in its reactor.
Tungsten alloys, specifically, provide "grain boundaries [that] serve as sinks for radiation defects," per Nature. Meanwhile, ...
Over the past five years, private sector funding for fusion energy has exploded, with the total invested is approaching $10-billion.
The Department of Energy (DOE) released a new roadmap for the US to realize the decades-long dream of harnessing fusion ...
Google has invested in fusion startups as potential power suppliers. This latest move suggests Google sees them as potential ...
Helion Energy has secured a permit unlocking the next phase of construction for what it hopes will be the world's first ...
The lecture by Saskia Mordijck, “Here Comes the Sun: Building a Star on Earth,” begins at 7 p.m. in the Sadler Center ’s Commonwealth Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. Those ...
The first fusion reactions in a laboratory were achieved in 1934 — a major breakthrough at the time. Today, however, achieving a fusion reaction is not particularly difficult: in 2018, a ...
The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer ...