German start-up Proxima Fusion has secured €400mn in backing from its home state of Bavaria to help build a €2bn test ...

Driven by the need for new energy, Germany has committed €1.7 billion in funding and partnered with companies like Proxima Fusion and RWE to build the world's first commercial stellarator fusion ...

Plasma physicist Debbie Callahan, chief strategy officer at Focused Energy, talks to Hamish Johnston about her work in laser fusion research ...

'I loved the project, but I also kinda hated it,' the schoolboy confessed.

A host of startups are racing to achieve commercial fusion power. Zap Energy just drew a line in the sand after announcing its latest device recorded the highest-ever plasma pressures for its ...

First Light Fusion has validated tritium breeding in its FLARE reactor, a step toward solving the tritium supply challenge for scalable fusion energy.

FLARE is designed primarily to generate commercial electricity, and early analysis indicates favourable economics based on power generation alone. Surplus tritium could help ease one of the industry’s ...

Inside a vast, hangar-like building in Devens, a trio of employees are working to test and assemble the pieces of what is likely one of the most advanced machines being built on Earth. One part of a ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) marked a major milestone Tuesday morning, announcing the installation of a key component of its SPARC demonstration reactor. The new part is a 24-foot wide, 75-ton ...

Physicists have spent decades chasing two grand technological dreams: harnessing fusion power and uncovering the nature of dark matter. A new theoretical paper now suggests those quests might collide ...

Nuclear fusion, which operates on the same principle that powers the sun, is expected to become a sustainable energy source for the future. To achieve fusion power generation, it is essential to ...

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 ...