Each second of operation at these extreme conditions requires years of effort from thousands of scientists and engineers,” said Professor Luo Guangnan of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In January ...

Their work was focused mostly on improving the field-reversed configuration (FRC), a magnetic confinement technique ... eventually allow for a working fusion reactor. This will allow such a ...

From assembly to first plasma in just two years is remarkably fast, but Song Yuntao—the project’s chief engineer from the ...

Advancements in fusion energy modeling, including a new guiding center model, enhance plasma simulations and address key ...

The National Ignition Facility, home of the first net-positive fusion reaction, is back with an even more powerful energy ...

A new shortcut can help engineers design leak-proof magnetic confinement systems for fusion reactors 10 times as fast as the gold standard method, without sacrificing accuracy. While several other ...

The dream of humanity to imitate the forces that created their habitat has been alive for at least as far back as the time ...

“In the world’s largest stellarator facility, high-energy helium-3 ions were generated for the first time using ion cyclotron ...

The road to those milestones has proven extraordinarily costly. Though General Fusion’s tally may seem impressive, it is ...

This confinement system is often described ... help with a similar but different problem in another popular magnetic fusion reactor design called a tokamak. In that design, there's a problem ...

Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) is the world's largest stellarator-type fusion reactor. The experimental facility is operated at the ...

prototype reactor with its first plasma in the target chamber. Whereas magnetic confinement fusion does effectively what it says on the tin, magnetic target fusion is pretty much a hybrid of ...