Aurora, one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, is now being used to ...

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

A persistent asymmetry in fusion exhaust has challenged researchers for years. New simulations show that plasma core rotation, working together with cross-field drifts, determines where particles land ...

For decades, one of fusion energy’s hardest problems has been keeping superheated plasma from blasting holes in reactor walls. A United States team working on the DIII-D tokamak now reports using ...

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

Scientists around the world are making progress as they try different techniques to bring commercial fusion energy to fruition. Much of the discussion about nuclear fusion has long revolved around its ...

A 13-foot robot nicknamed Godzilla is being engineered to assemble components inside ITER, the massive fusion reactor taking ...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has proposed the first dedicated federal licensing framework for commercial ...

Mehr explores the innovative technology of China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak, and its implications for energy generation.

The blueprint says it all. Pointing at precise locations inside the vacuum vessel sector, hundreds and hundreds of arrows—each with a unique reference number—indicate where the anchoring features for ...