Zap Energy’s three-meter reactor uses a lead-lithium liquid wall, cutting hardware needs and bringing cleaner, modular power ...

First tokamak plasma at the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak – SMART – recorded with a fast-framing camera in the visible spectral range. In a pioneering approach to achieve fusion energy, the SMART device ...

Fusion startups are racing to prove that they can bottle the power of the stars without the sprawling magnets or precision ...

For decades, nuclear fusion has been viewed as the ultimate energy source—clean, powerful, and practically limitless. Most approaches to fusion involve enormous machines designed to squeeze plasma ...

Physicists are teasing a potential leap in nuclear fusion that sounds almost absurd on its face: a path to reactions that are “billion times” more efficient by swapping today’s ultra-short, ...

Funding from new investor Future Ventures and returning investor Khosla Ventures follows the company's record-breaking achievement of the highest magnetic field ever applied in a magnetic confinement ...

Get ready because the future of traveling to other planets just got a massive upgrade. Pulsar Fusion, a U.K.-based aerospace company, is developing a compact fusion engine called the Dual Direct ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Technicians use a service system lift to access the target chamber interior for inspection and maintenance at the National ...

About 60 years ago, Russian physicist Lev Artsimovich said nuclear fusion “will be ready when society needs it”. The UK has achieved a “major breakthrough for fusion energy research”, the UK Atomic ...

Researchers at First Light Fusion have reported a breakthrough that allows terapascal pressures to be generated using compact laboratory equipment, a capability previously restricted to large and ...

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