This experiment is the first confirmation of an abstract framework. Chinese scientists make groundbreaking discovery in ...

For most of the past 70 years, fusion energy has been shorthand for a promise that never quite arrived, a running joke about ...

Experiments at San Diego's DIII-D National Fusion Facility have demonstrated that a new plasma configuration could help increase the stability of tokamak fusion reactors and inform future designs.

The machines at their center, called tokamaks, have evolved from experimental curiosities into instruments capable of sustaining confined plasma – matter so hot it mimics the ...

A team of researchers has identified a mechanism that could lower the extreme temperature ...

Fusion energy, the same process that powers our sun and stars, is rapidly moving from scientific theory to commercial reality. In a fusion reaction, two light atoms—typically deuterium and ...

To hasten the commercialization of fusion energy, the U.S. Department of Energy has released a roadmap that includes creating critical infrastructure and deploying artificial intelligence. The newly ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Scientists and companies have been trying for decades to harness fusion energy, the process that fires the sun, to generate electricity on Earth. Fusion energy, the ...

Claims of “net energy gain” in fusion experiments often exclude the massive energy consumed by the full system, leading to misleading headlines. Even under optimistic timelines, commercial fusion ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Department of Energy is amping up its funding presence in fusion energy generation through private sector collaboration and by ...

Type One Energy plans to build a fusion power plan on the site of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Bull Run coal-fired power plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty ...