For decades, the U.S. has led the race to clean, limitless nuclear fusion energy. Now China is catching up, spending twice as ...

Scientists use light-emitting crystals and solar panels to turn the latent energy in nuclear waste into microbatteries.

China has made a significant breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology, achieving record temperatures in its EAST experiment, ...

Reaching durations such as these is a crucial milestone for machines like ... energy that exploits nuclear reactions, with many possible complementary aspects to nuclear fission energy and ...

Nuclear fusion and nuclear fission are nuclear processes ... reactor and confines plasma into a doughnut shape using a machine called a tokamak, is impressive because, as recently as two years ...

A UK startup has unveiled a new fusion-powered space rocket concept called Sunbird for interplanetary travel to Mars — and beyond.

The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time ...

Yet despite improvements in the design of nuclear-fission reactors ... storage because of the complexity and scale of the fusion machine required. The overall implication is that even if the ...

In its announcement, CEA said reaching durations such as these is a crucial milestone for machines like Iter ... source of energy that exploits nuclear reactions, with many possible complementary ...