But on January 1, researchers working on China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) — often dubbed the ...

Inside a French fusion experiment, a metal more associated with lightbulb filaments than star power just did something ...

China's EAST nuclear fusion reactor has successfully kept plasma stable at extreme densities, passing a major fusion ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems installs first of 18 massive magnets in Sparc fusion reactor at CES 2026, aiming to activate it ...

The award winning OpenMC software package is helping researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and the Massachusetts ...

Scientists at China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) program rang in the new year with a stunning ...

The promise of nuclear fusion feels simple. Just as stars fuse hydrogen into heavier elements to produce energy, a fusion reactor generates massive amounts of energy by combining lightweight particles ...

Fusion power is a means of deriving electrical power from the heat released during nuclear fusion reactions, and it's been a long-time dream to produce a working reactor. Fusion occurs when two light ...

Physicists have spent decades chasing two grand technological dreams: harnessing fusion power and uncovering the nature of ...

Recently, another reactor in France reported a major tungsten breakthrough: its toroidal tokamak, clad in tungsten, ...

A view of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion reactor, as seen on September 18, 2015 at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald, Germany. A twisting ribbon of hydrogen gas, many times hotter ...