Surprise! Fusion startup Zap Energy says it will be developing fission reactors alongside its fusion devices.

Fusion startup Zap Energy is adding nuclear fission to its quest for nuclear power, naming Zabrina Johal as CEO to lead the ...

The fusion energy start-up Commonwealth Fusion Systems aims to bring its first power plant online by the early 2030s, but ...

Nuclear fusion usually brings to mind sprawling facilities, blistering temperatures, and machines built on a scale that can swallow budgets whole. This device does something stranger.

The US ITER has completed the final deliveries for the central solenoid magnet at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nuclear fusion promises a green and infinitely renewable supply of energy—if we can harness it. Fusion happens all the time inside ...

Although still a far-future technology, nuclear fusion is really hot right now, both literally and figuratively. Squishing together two light nuclei requires immensely hot temperatures (like, 100 ...

A stellarator is difficult to build, but could it be the best way to make fusion energy work?

The "artificial sun" HL-3 at the CNNC Southwestern Institute of Physics in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan Province. Photo: VCG China's new-generation "artificial sun," HL-3, is accelerating toward ...

Commercial fusion power plants may be cheaper and easier to build thanks to a breakthrough by TAE Technologies that allows reactors to generate their own containment fields without the need for ...

Scientists have directly observed muonic molecules in resonance states for the first time, using a high-resolution X-ray ...