Clean energy from nuclear fusion may soon be commercial. But leaders around the world have done little to prepare.
Fusion power promises to generate large amounts of clean electricity from nearly limitless fuel. This article explains the main approaches and the companies that use them.
China builds its most advanced fusion reactor BEST by 2027, aiming to achieve commercial fusion power by 2030 through state ...
All of these new developments don’t mean that the sun is ready to give up its fusion monopoly, as many significant hurdles—technical, scientific, and economic—still place our own homegrown star just ...
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 ...
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 ...
There’s only one fusion device on earth that has been able to meet a key scientific threshold, but Maritime Fusion CEO Justin Cohen is already preparing to put a fusion reactor on a boat. Stay with me ...
Oxfordshire company appointed to bring its expertise to the UK’s first fusion prototype plant in Nottinghamshire. The ...
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing numerous revisions to its controls on byproduct material produced by ...
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 ...
Japanese fusion energy startup Helical Fusion Co., Ltd. has begun Phase 1 of Helix ...