Since 1983, scientists have used England's Joint European Torus (JET) to recreate nuclear fusion, the merging of atoms that powers the sun and other stars, in Britain. An effective nuclear fusion ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Type One Energy and the University of Tennessee in Knoxville are partnering to establish a world-class facility that will drive American innovation and move ...

A cutting-edge project to test “fusion blanket” technologies is taking shape, with the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) leading the charge to create a critical component of a fusion reactor. This work ...

The United States is preparing to subject fusion reactor materials to a brutal new benchmark: a focused 10 megawatt heat ...

The headlines told the story: “Scientists Achieve Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough With Blast of 192 Lasers,” The New York Times. “U.S. announces milestone on fusion energy, sparking hopes for clean power, ...

Scientists at the world’s largest nuclear-fusion facility have achieved the phenomenon known as ignition—creating a nuclear reaction that generates more energy than it consumes. Results of the ...

To achieve fusion, the U.S. National Ignition Facility focuses its lasers onto a gold cylinder containing a diamond capsule filled with hydrogen isotopes. NIF could need safety upgrades, if its energy ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has published an extensive paper confirming the validity of its 2022 fusion experiment where multiple lasers focused on a sphere of deuterium and tritium to ...

MUSE, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s new stellarator. Photo: Michael Livingston / PPPL Communications Department A team of physicists and engineers at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory built ...

The Bay Area continues to press forward at the forefront of scientific innovation. Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore announced Sunday they have achieved a net gain ...

Helicity Fusion is developing fusion propulsion for space ships. They have built and are testing their first fusion gun and are testing it in the lab. They plan to have four fusion guns and a ...