Fusion systems of the stellarator type promise high-performance plasmas in continuous operation. Accordingly, heat and particles from the hot plasma permanently stress the vessel walls. It is the task ...

The Plasma Physics Team is devoted to the study of controlled magnetic confinement fusion. The team, based mainly on the Institute of Fusion Science (IFS), has signed a collaborative agreement in year ...

The world’s largest stellarator fusion power design project has received new funding, according to a report. Backed by Bill Gates, Type One Energy recently raised $87 million. The startup aims to ...

United States-based Type One Energy has announced the publication of what it calls the world’s first comprehensive, self-consistent, and robust physics basis, with conservative design margins for a ...

As the climate crisis worsens and energy needs grow, scientists are racing to unlock a cleaner and safer energy future. Among the most promising solutions is nuclear fusion—an energy source that could ...

The Princeton Plasma Physics Lab (PPPL) will phase out construction of the National Compact Stellarator Experiment (NCSX) and instead ensure the lab's future as a world-leading center of fusion energy ...

In the three-year project, starting in 2011, scientists from the fusion institutes at Princeton, Oak Ridge and Los Alamos are contributing auxiliary magnetic coils, measuring instruments and planning ...

Scientists in Germany began an experiment which (they hope) will bring us closer to the dream of nuclear fusion power—a safer, cleaner form of nuclear energy. Nuclear fusion is, after all, what powers ...

You may not have heard of a Stellarator before, but if all goes well later this month in a small university town in the far northeast of Germany, you will. That’s because the Wendelstein 7-X is ...

The Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald and the U.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison have founded a joint research project to investigate the power exhaust from a hot ...