Richard Buttery is the director of what they call the DIII-D fusion reactor at General Atomics, which is funded by the department of energy. He said the promise of exploiting fusion on earth is a ...

For decades, General Atomics has been at the forefront of ... a Department of Energy user facility that houses the only operating fusion reactor (tokamak) in the U.S., where scientists collaborate ...

NASA and General Atomics tested the fuel by exposing it to temperatures up to 3,000 Kelvin (4,940 Fahrenheit or 2,727 Celsius ...

The inertial fusion energy project is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and includes the Lawrence Livermore ...

which are doughnut-shaped reactors at the core of fusion research. Scientists at General Atomics have recently accomplished a breakthrough, that is, it surpassed the Greenwald limit by 20% with the ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. General Atomics and NASA have successfully tested a new type of nuclear thermal ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS ... that the fuel can survive the harsh environment of a nuclear rocket reactor. Up until now, the main way of propelling spacecraft has been ...

For decades, General Atomics has been at the forefront of fusion technology research. At its San Diego headquarters, GA scientists and engineers collaborate with teams worldwide to develop the ...

In August last year the control room at General Atomics had something to ... phone photos and cheered as their nuclear reactor generated “plasma shot” number 200,000. Each plasma shot is an ...

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Scientists at General Atomics (GA) are delighted this week after receiving funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for important fusion energy ...

Funding Will Drive Target Fabrication and Laser Study for Commercial Inertial Fusion Power Plants and Support Critical Systems Research for Magnetic Fusion Energy SAN DIEGO, Feb. 10, 2025 (GLOBE ...