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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, scientists have been working to develop reactors that can achieve fusion to meet the increasing need for clean and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inside the target chamber at the National Ignition Facility, where researchers work on getting higher energy outputs from fusion ...

The way scientists think about fusion changed forever in 2022, when what some called the experiment of the century demonstrated for the first time that fusion can be a viable source of clean energy.

(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 ...

France’s WEST tokamak held a fusion plasma at roughly 50 million degrees Celsius for 1,337 seconds, more than 22 minutes, ...

German fusion startup Focused Energy raised $240M Series A led by utility RWE to build a laser-powered reactor based on the NIF's net energy gain breakthrough.

Fusion startup Thea Energy secures $100 million to build scalable fusion power plants for the future of clean energy.

Magnetic confinement plasma physics examines the use of strong magnetic fields to contain ionised gases at temperatures exceeding those in the core of the Sun. By shaping field lines into toroidal or ...

The way scientists think about fusion changed forever in 2022, when what some called the experiment of the century demonstrated for the first time that fusion can be a viable source of clean energy.