Germany's Wendelstein 7-X - the world's largest stellarator-type fusion device - has achieved a world record in a key ...

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 ...

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 ...

When high-energy alpha particles leak from a reactor, that prevents the plasma from getting hot and dense enough to sustain the fusion reaction. To prevent them from leaking, engineers design ...

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 ...

One of the most advanced kind of fusion energy globally approaches is magnetic confinement. These ring-shaped machines use powerful magnetic fields to contain super-hot plasma, creating the ...

And that’s just for inertial confinement. Another method of achieving fusion, called magnetic confinement fusion, relies on holding plasma (a state of matter where atoms are stripped of their ...

White said this discovery has broad applications, particularly in inertial confinement fusion experiments, which aim to achieve fusion reactions on Earth using laser-driven compression. These ...

In particular, he has focused on solving problems related to the physics of runaway electrons – a kind of energy leakage – and other energetic particles in magnetic confinement fusion devices.

On January 20, Chinese scientists reported that they were able to maintain a plasma at a temperature of 100 million degrees C for about 1,066 seconds in a nuclear fusion reactor called the ...