A PPPL model says heating fusion plasma before compressing it could cut energy needs, while a trace of tungsten could double ...

Optical fibers and miniature silicon sensors designed for nuclear physics experiments are being sent ...

This is Fusion Insights. Last time, we organized the current status of global nuclear fusion startups and various ...

Scientists are debating if fusion energy will stay science fiction – or if it could really replace fossil fuels in the future.

Thin alumina coatings can create a barrier for tritium, reducing its permeation while fundamentally changing the permeation ...

1-Dec-2025 at 7:30 PM EST, by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory “This is exactly the kind of work that NIF was built to enable. After multiple successful ignition experiments we have made ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems has signed a record supply deal for high-temperature superconducting tape as it prepares to build ...

EU-Russia tensions collide with decades of scientific cooperation at ITER, the world’s largest nuclear fusion experiment. As fusion becomes a strategic EU priority, Brussels faces a dilemma over its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When in operation, this space inside the Wendelstein 7-X fusion reactor contains plasma hotter than the sun. Paolo Verzone Wearing ...

A new perspective in Nuclear Science and Techniques organizes ten frontier questions into a single roadmap connecting ...

Claims of “net energy gain” in fusion experiments often exclude the massive energy consumed by the full system, leading to misleading headlines. Even under optimistic timelines, commercial fusion ...

Nuclear fusion takes place within this tiny capsule of hydrogenDr. Eddie Dewald When physicists first split the atom in 1938, in the process known as nuclear fission, the feat led very quickly to the ...