Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream ...

Useful, cost-effective nuclear fusion remains a distant dream, despite a small step in the right direction from the government's NIF reactor. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Japan's experimental nuclear fusion reactor is up and running. JT-60SA is currently the most powerful experimental fusion reactor in operation. It's a different device than NIF's, which had a ...

A nuclear fusion reactor in China, dubbed the "artificial sun," has broken its own record to bring humanity one step closer ...

Google has taken a major step toward the future of clean energy by partnering with Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), an MIT spin-out working to build one of the world’s first commercial fusion ...

Recent breakthroughs in nuclear fusion research have ... a group of American scientists at the National Ignition Facility ... which is faster than any other company has built a comparable reactor.

The Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak (BEST) nuclear fusion reactor being built in Heifei, China, is in the final phase of its assembly and on track for completion by 2027. When ...

In 2022, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility in California, 192 lasers focused on a peppercorn-sized pellet of deuterium-tritium and in the 5.4-million-degree ...

Westinghouse Electric has secured a $180m contract from ITER for the assembly of a nuclear fusion reactor’s vacuum vessel in ...

To reach there, we need to first succeed in getting more energy out of a nuclear fusion reactor than we put in. Advertisement. ... In NIF's approach to harnessing fusion energy, ...

Deep under the Nevada desert in the 1980s the US conducted secret nuclear weapons research. Among the experiments was an effort to see if nuclear fusion, the reaction which powers the sun, could ...