Oak Ridge's director of fusion energy explains why the global race to build the world’s first fusion plant still depends on ...

China is leading the pack when it comes to developing nuclear power, and its 'artificial sun' is set to pave the way for many ...

The Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research device, better known as KSTAR, sustained plasma at about 180 million ...

The EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak) nuclear fusion reactor maintained a temperature of 158 million ...

Inside Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, a machine the size of a sports stadium is doing something that ...

South Korea’s KSTAR reactor just held 100-million-degree plasma for 102 seconds. See how fusion is closing the gap on clean ...

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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 ...

China's EAST nuclear fusion reactor has successfully kept plasma stable at extreme densities, passing a major fusion milestone and potentially bringing humanity closer to wielding near-limitless clean ...

Researchers working on China’s ‘artificial sun’ have reported breaking a long-accepted threshold that has limited the operation of nuclear fusion reactors for decades. China’s Experimental Advanced ...

Researchers using China’s “artificial sun” fusion reactor have broken through a long-standing density barrier in fusion plasma. The experiment confirmed that plasma can remain stable even at extreme ...