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

What if scientists could harness the extraordinarily powerful process that fuels the sun to generate clean energy here on Earth? In a potentially historic milestone, they are taking a step towards ...

The international ITER tokamak has begun construction and plans to start turning on in 2025. Bringing in parts for the 25,000-ton reactor required building a special heavy-duty road. ITER is the ...

A ceremony was held yesterday within the ITER Assembly Hall to mark the official start of the assembly of the tokamak fusion device of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor at Cadarache ...

The truly massive International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) has entered its years-long assembly phase. The fusion reactor has millions of individual parts that will eventually form the ...

In a landmark achievement for fusion energy, ITER has completed all components for the world's largest, most powerful pulsed superconducting electromagnet system. ITER is an international ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." England's Joint European Torus (JET) tokamak has produced 59 megajoules of energy for five seconds, ...

Some of the participating countries — which include the United States, Russia, China, India, South Korea, Japan, and the nations of the European Union — are frequent collaborators, but some are major ...