Increasing the chance of fusion means raising the density of nuclei in the apparatus as well as the length of time they ...

For decades, nuclear fusion has been viewed as the ultimate energy source—clean, powerful, and practically limitless. Most ...

The team's custom-built "Thunderbird Reactor" uses a compact particle accelerator with a plasma thruster and an ...

They manage to keep the plasma stable for 22 minutes, breaking the Chinese record and bringing practical nuclear fusion ...

In an audacious stride for the energy sector, a fusion startup has announced the design of what they claim to be the world’s first practical nuclear fusion reactor. We delve into the details of this ...

Once complete, ITER will run fusion experiments using five times as much plasma as the largest reactors in operation today.

Pacific Fusion made a splash in October when it emerged from stealth with a $900 million Series A and a founding team led by a scientist who is most widely known for his work on the Human Genome ...

German startup Proxima Fusion — whose team includes engineers from MIT, Google, SpaceX, and McLaren — has unveiled a fusion energy reactor design it believes offers the quickest route to commercially ...

A fusion energy startup claims to have found a way to turn mercury into gold. As the Financial Times reports, San Francisco-based Marathon Fusion says that the same process that could one day ...

All the nuclear power plants in operation right now use nuclear fission—the process of splitting apart an atom—to produce energy. But scientists have spent decades and entire careers in a frustrating ...