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

Researchers have made a leap forward in the pursuit of clean, endless energy. A team at General Atomics, a U.S. Department of ...

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 ...

A physics breakthrough could supercharge fusion power development by solving a decades-old particle containment issue.

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

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

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 big ...

Stellarators use external magnetic coils to generate complex magnetic fields that confine plasma inside the reactor. But ...

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

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

The Holy Grail of energy production, nuclear fusion, is making rapid advances and one experimental reactor in the United States is nearing its first tests.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Ignition Facility increased the yield of the experiment in recent attempts.