Clean energy from nuclear fusion may soon be commercial. But leaders around the world have done little to prepare.

Driven by the need for new energy, Germany has committed €1.7 billion in funding and partnered with companies like Proxima ...

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Governments and private developers worldwide are accelerating nuclear fusion research amid technical breakthroughs that could bring commercial-scale, clean energy closer to reality.

Once a government-led pursuit, nuclear fusion is now a private-capital race, much of it financed by the same people building AI.

In late 2022, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved a historic nuclear fusion breakthrough by creating a fusion reaction that produced more energy than the lasers used to create it.

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, ...

Nuclear fusion group SHINE Technologies said it has raised $240 million in equity funding to advance the company's commercial ...

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Scientists at China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) program rang in the new year with a stunning accomplishment: empirical evidence that they used the device to achieve nuclear ...

A 12-year-old Dallas student, Aiden McMillan, has successfully created a nuclear fusion reactor in his playroom, aiming for a Guinness World Record.