General Fusion announced on Tuesday that it had successfully created plasma, a superheated fourth state of matter required for fusion, inside a prototype reactor. The milestone marks the beginning ...

“It’s kept a secret how much lithium 6 is left there, but it’s surely not enough to supply future fusion reactors,” says Sarbajit Banerjee, a professor of chemistry at the Swiss Federal ...

A commercial fusion reactor is expected to need tonnes of the element every day. “However, these challenges pale in comparison to the bigger challenges with plasma reactors and laser ignition ...

Fusion on the other hand does not create any long-lived radioactive nuclear waste. A fusion reactor produces helium, which is an inert gas. It also produces and consumes tritium within the plant in a ...

Meet the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak, or EAST. EAST is a fusion reactor based in Hefei, China. And it can now reach temperatures more than six times as hot as the sun.

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 ...

His inspiration came from Taylor Wilson's TED talk. A 12-year-old boy from Memphis, US, recently received an unexpected visit from the FBI after successfully building a nuclear fusion reactor in ...

Fusion power could provide an invaluable source of baseload power to back up intermittent renewables. However, despite decades of development, a viable reactor has yet to be produced. The extreme ...

But where the National Ignition Facility uses lasers to compress a fuel pellet, General Fusion’s MTF reactor design relies on steam-driven pistons. Inside the chamber, deuterium-tritium fuel is ...