On May 22, the latest experimental campaign concluded at the world's most powerful nuclear fusion device of the stellarator ...

Fusion power has long been promised as a clean, abundant energy source, but scientists have struggled to harness it ...

Scientists have considered applying magnetic fields to inertial confinement fusion reactions before, but until now most efforts have been on paper rather than in the lab. Inertial confinement ...

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 ...

CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati and Italo Rota created a new project with energy company Eni to explore how the future of fusion power plants will look. It’s called magnetic confinement fusion ...

Physicists have been trying to design fusion reactors ... it is possible to have magnetic fields that are quite far from ...

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

With the goal in mind, however, I’d note that magnetic confinement fusion (MCF) approaches, such as the JET tokamak, have already achieved substantially better wall-plug efficiency than reported ...

The magnetic mirror is the simplest form of steady magnetic confinement, and centrifugal rotation at supersonic speeds makes it a promising fusion reactor candidate for its stability, engineering ...

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 ...

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 ...

A hybrid of two popular nuclear fusion reactor designs could lead to more efficient power plants. Magnetic confinement fusion reactors use magnetic fields to squeeze a cloud of charged ions ...