The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority has opened a formal search for engineering and construction partners to deliver STEP, a spherical tokamak energy production facility that UKAEA says is ...
A fusion reactor in southern France achieved a significant milestone toward clean, limitless energy. The fusion reactor, WEST, created a super-hot plasma and sustained it for a record-breaking 6 ...
The international effort to build the world’s largest fusion reactor in southern France has entered a critical new phase, with project leaders adopting a revised 2024 baseline that acknowledges years ...
Fusion firm Tokamak Energy has released the first high-speed color images of plasma from inside a fusion energy machine, providing new visual insights into the behavior of the "captured star." This is ...
Could we get a fusion pilot plant in the next decade that produces electricity using the hydrogen-like reactions that power our sun and all other stars? A possible location for this facility that ...
Earlier this morning, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Organization announced what has long been known: The largest tokamak in the world will be delayed further, prolonging ...
This view of the inside of LTX-β shows what the donut-shaped plasma containment device looks like after the lithium has been cleaned off the shell walls and several ports were opened. PPPL Staff ...
The reactor, a forerunner for the vast ITER experiment in France, has the potential to hasten the race for cleaner energy. Reading time 3 minutes The biggest experimental nuclear fusion reactor in ...
The UK’s most famous fusion reactor – the Joint European Torus (JET) tokamak – saw its first plasma on June 25th of 1983. Its final plasma pulse was generated on December 18th of 2023, for a total of ...