Scientists can now accurately predict holes in magnetic fields that would make plasma less dense and hot, a hurdle in nuclear ...

Abundant, low-cost, clean energy—the envisioned result if scientists and engineers can successfully produce a reliable method ...

A team of researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Type One Energy Group has ...

Their work was focused mostly on improving the field-reversed configuration (FRC), a magnetic confinement technique. As the researchers note, generating fusion reactions involves first generating ...

Scientists have achieved a breakthrough in magnetic confinement that could potentially quicken the advancement for fusion ...

Energy production through nuclear fusion is now identified as one of the solutions to address two crucial challenges: the need to reduce global carbon emissions and the ever-increasing energy demand ...

The success of such experiments depends on multiple key factors, including optimized magnetic fields that could display enhanced fusion plasma confinement. Introduced by researchers at Laboratorio ...

As covered previously, plasma stability is a problem with the popular approach of tokamak-based magnetic confinement fusion (MCF). Although this core problem has now been largely addressed ...

It's free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now! One of the most advanced kind of fusion energy globally approaches is magnetic confinement. These ring-shaped machines use powerful magnetic ...