Researchers held a high-quality plasma steady for 43 seconds using frozen hydrogen, setting new fusion record.

For decades, scientists have been working to develop reactors that can achieve fusion to meet the increasing need for clean and limitless energy. The success of such experiments depends on multiple ...

British scientists have made a significant "breakthrough" in a bid for unlimited clean energy. Oxford-based Tokamak Energy ...

The exceptional materials degradation caused by large quantities of fusion neutrons is one of the single largest factors ...

Over the past five years, private-sector funding for fusion energy has exploded. The total invested is approaching US$10 ...

Fusion energy is moving from theory to construction. Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ 400-MW ARC reactor in Virginia—backed by ...

Russell M. Kulsrud, 97, a pioneering theoretical physicist whose work helped define the modern fields of plasma physics and ...

As stellarator configurations are challenging to build, most fusion experiments today are tokamaks (a short form for a Russian expression that translates as ‘toroidal chamber with magnetic coils’).

Although the idea of containing a plasma within a magnetic field seems straightforward at first, plasmas are highly dynamic systems that will happily escape magnetic confinement if given half a chance ...

What just happened? China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), nicknamed the artificial sun, has shattered its own world record for plasma confinement. On Monday, EAST maintained a ...