We got neutrons, yeah!” The shout came after years of after-school effort inside a Dallas home, where a seventh grader had ...

Scientists say the path to commercial fusion power may hinge on better ways to measure the behavior of superheated plasma.

A student’s small bedroom has become a hotspot for nuclear fusion experiments. With no fancy lab or deep-pocketed sponsors, the work is entirely driven by curiosity and grit. Hudhayfa Nazoordeen, a ...

Fusion power has long been sold as the technology that could light our cities with the same process that powers the stars. Now a new line of research suggests those same reactors might also be ...

A 13-foot robot nicknamed Godzilla is being engineered to assemble components inside ITER, the massive fusion reactor taking shape in southern France. The machine exists because the interior of a ...

When in operation, this space inside the Wendelstein 7-X fusion reactor contains plasma hotter than the sun. Paolo Verzone Wearing a clean white lab suit complete with white shoes and gloves, National ...

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 ...

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

Figure out how to use giant freakin’ lasers to create limitless fusion energy that can free us from fossil fuels and steer the planet away from climate change. Today, with energy costs (and climate ...

A materials expert told Friends of ORNL that advanced nuclear reactors need 21st-century materials to withstand extreme ...

Proxima Fusion, a two-year-old German nuclear fusion startup, has published plans for a working fusion power plant in a peer-reviewed journal, in what is being touted as an important change in the ...