China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak has just shattered a longstanding limit in nuclear plasma density.

China has been investing billions in nuclear fusion research. A potential game-changer for global energy, fusion has been ...

Nuclear fusion, the process whereby atomic nuclei coalesce to form a heavier nucleus, lies at the heart of both energy generation and the synthesis of elements in the cosmos. In recent decades, ...

The UK's Atomic Energy Authority aims to make nuclear fusion a reality with its latest MAST Upgrade scientific campaign.

Scientists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have used the Summit supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to simulate a potential solution to ...

Nuclear fusion, the mechanism that powers the sun, is now reportedly one step closer to being understood by scientists thanks to a 3D visualization produced by one of the top laboratories in the world ...

Successful fusion experiments in the US and UK raise hopes for achieving clean and abundant energy through nuclear fusion. Challenges remain in scaling up fusion processes to commercially viable ...

It’s rarely appreciated just how much more complicated nuclear fusion is than nuclear fission. Whereas the latter involves a process that happens all around us without any human involvement, and where ...

Researchers have made a leap forward in the pursuit of clean, endless energy. A team at General Atomics, a U.S. Department of Energy-backed facility, has unveiled a key advance in nuclear fusion, the ...

The breakthrough scientific moment for fusion power—and the potential for nearly limitless electricity from a so-called star in a jar—came at the end of 2022 when scientists at Lawrence Livermore ...