Designing predictable nuclear fusion reactors requires highly accurate computer models, yet existing simulations often ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has verified the core plasma physics assumptions for its upcoming ...

A research group has achieved a new plasma confinement regime using small 3D magnetic perturbations that simultaneously suppress edge instabilities and enhance core plasma confinement in the ...

The biggest example is the two main approaches to fusion – magnetic confinement and laser inertial confinement. Though they both aim at fusing hydrogen isotopes, they take completely different paths.

Magnetic Confinement Fusion Research Centre has the following research output in the current window (1 January 2025 - 31 December 2025) of the Nature Index. Click on Count to view a list of articles ...

(Editor’s note: The following article originally appeared in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in October, 1971. It is reprinted here in full in November 2024—so readers can get a sense of how ...

Although the idea of containing a plasma within a magnetic field seems straightforward at first, plasmas are highly dynamic systems that will happily escape magnetic confinement if given half a chance ...

A start-up that a Nobel laureate co-founded plans to commercialize a nuclear fusion reactor using laser technology by around ...

Fusion power represents a potentially powerful long-term addition to clean energy systems. The technology seeks to replicate the process that powers the sun: fusing light atomic nuclei (typically ...

Imagine a world where energy is no longer a finite resource—a world powered by a clean, virtually limitless source that doesn’t pollute the air or leave behind hazardous waste. It sounds like science ...