WEST, a tokamak run from the CEA Cadarache site in southern France and one of the EUROfusion consortium medium size Tokamak ...

French research organization CEA reported that on 12 February, the CEA’s WEST tokamak maintained a nuclear fusion plasma for ...

Understanding, modelling and controlling plasma is extremely complex but researchers have made great strides over the past decades. Scientists use magnetic confinement devices to manipulate plasmas.

Helion's unorthodox approach to fusion power and relative secrecy has earned it plenty of fans — and critics. But don’t count ...

One of those reactors is China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), located in Heifei, China, which has a habit of breaking fusion ... magnetic confinement—to contain plasma ...

Novatron’s unique magnetic mirror design ... professor in Fusion Plasma Physics at KTH. “This unique collaboration will help drive the ongoing development of the novel fusion technology ...

negative triangularity and high magnetic field. This first solenoid-induced plasma represents a major achievement for the SMART project, as well as for progress towards the most compact fusion device ...

Hot stuff The first plasma at the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak. (Courtesy: University of Seville) A novel fusion device based at the University of Seville in Spain has achieved its first plasma. The ...

“It will also be used to start up and drive ... magnetic field which accelerates them to the point where they emit microwave radiation. This is directed through a waveguide to the plasma of ...

The need for an intense source of coherent, millimetre-wavelength radiation to heat a fusion plasma ... the confining magnetic field that compromise its ability to confine a plasma, which degrades ...

In a pioneering approach to achieve fusion energy, the SMART device has successfully generated its first tokamak plasma ... opportunity to track the sun's magnetic field as it traveled into ...

On 12 February, the CEA’s WEST machine was able to maintain a plasma for more than 22 minutes. In doing so, it smashed the ...