Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The plasma density barrier is a mathematical limit to the density of plasma that can exist in a tokamak before destabilizing. A new study led by a ...

The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has officially begun decommissioning the longest-running and most productive fusion tokamak in the world, following more than four decades of spectacular ...

Nuclear fusion may be closer to commercialization than previously thought, with private firms targeting operational reactors ...

Nuclear fusion usually brings to mind sprawling facilities, blistering temperatures, and machines built on a scale that can swallow budgets whole. This device does something stranger.

New simulations from Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory suggest that deliberately engineering plasma rotation inside tokamak fusion reactors could dramatically reduce the heat loads that destroy ...

Brit boffins have a £2.5 billion ($3.4 billion) budget for fusion power research and development, and the government agency ...

A research team led by Prof. SUN Youwen from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has developed two innovative artificial intelligence (AI) systems to enhance ...

An experiment at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory produced a 1-million-ampere plasma current with a new reactor last month, setting a world record for that type of reactor and opening the door ...

Fusion energy has long promised the world a clean, nearly limitless source of power. But despite the excitement, real-world reactors must meet intense demands—both in performance and safety. Inside ...

A fusion reactor dismantled in the UK and reassembled in the Czech Republic celebrated its first plasma late last year. The $32 million device was handed over for a symbolic £1. A fusion reactor ...

Tokamak plasma systems hold great promise in realising practical nuclear fusion, yet their full potential is constrained by the risk of disruptions – sudden, often catastrophic, losses of plasma ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In the race for clean energy, no technology is quite as promising as nuclear fusion, but the road toward energy freedom is filled with barriers that ...