Clean energy from nuclear fusion may soon be commercial. But leaders around the world have done little to prepare.

All of these new developments don’t mean that the sun is ready to give up its fusion monopoly, as many significant ...

The U.S. government has launched the process to develop a regulatory framework to develop fusion machines as emerging nuclear ...

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The plasma density barrier is a mathematical limit to the density of plasma that can exist in a tokamak before destabilizing. A new study led by a ...

Aurora, one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, is now being used to ...

Workers monitor the Kazakhstan tokamak for material testing, a circular machine in a large white room. The Kazakhstan tokamak for material testing generated its first plasma in 2019. Credit: National ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sun-mimicking technology known as nuclear fusion hopes to create “limitless” energy by smashing light nuclei together using ...

"Based on current knowledge and technological capabilities, achieving controlled nuclear fusion will take at least another 20 to 30 years," Wang Mingdan, a member of the 14th National Committee of the ...

Recent breakthroughs in plasma density and duration at facilities in China, France, and South Korea have removed key technical barriers to fusion development. Major international projects like ITER, ...

Experiments at China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak have confirmed the existence of "a density-free region" of the tokamak, finding a method to break through the density limit and ...