The nuclear fusion firm aims to advance its cost-effective tech with a funding deal, as Chinese competition grows in the ...

The technology could help produce more resistant materials and allow scientists more control over fusion reactions.

Russian nuclear firm Rosatom has offered India its expertise in building small modular reactors (SMRs) and may explore ...

The clean energy source we’ve been pursuing for decades is advancing with 200,000 “plasma shots” at General Atomics in San ...

Combined with the EAST reactor and others like it, this may be the beginning of the answer to nuclear fusion, a Holy Grail of energy production. Terry Thomas is a wildlife biologist and naturalist.

The nuclear reactor is yet to achieve ignition which is the point at which nuclear fusion creates its own energy and sustains the reactions. However, the new record is an encouraging step towards ...

Washington-based fusion energy company ... of electricity. Nuclear fusion is also ridiculously expensive. For reference, The ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) project in ...

The Chinese EAST reactor maintained a temperature of 180 million degrees Fahrenheit for 18 minutes, setting a new record.

The Chinese EAST reactor maintained a temperature of about 100 million degrees Celsius for 18 minutes, setting a new record.

“This accelerates the construction of the world’s first fusion power plant and then all our plants to come,” he said in a statement. Nuclear fusion technology, which harnesses the energy ...

According to experts, this development could have huge implications for both nuclear weapons research and clean ... This process generates a micro-scale fusion reaction, which mimics the energy ...

Nuclear reactors generate energy through a process called fission, which involves splitting atoms of a heavy element into lighter elements. Fusion uses the opposite process: It merges two light ...