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

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

Munich-based Proxima Fusion has signed an agreement with the Free State of Bavaria, RWE, and Max Planck Institute for Plasma ...

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.

If successful, experts will have delivered a nearly limitless energy source without air pollution, long-lasting nuclear waste ...

MuWave, a spinout from research by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, is upping wave power from gigahertz to ...

Norbert Holtkamp returns to Fermilab with a clear mandate: deliver DUNE, honour the laboratory’s legacy of bold leadership ...

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

ITER, a €20 billion nuclear fusion reactor under construction in France, will now not switch on until 2035 - a delay of 10 years. With smaller commercial fusion efforts on the rise, is it worth ...

For decades, nuclear fusion has been the “holy grail” of energy — a promise of clean, limitless power that always seems to be “twenty years away.” Nuclear fusion is the same process that fuels the ...

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