Negative triangularity is changing fusion energy! The SMART tokamak's new plasma shape could lead to compact, efficient ...

China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) achieved a breakthrough in nuclear fusion energy by maintaining ...

The Globus-M2 spherical tokamak that Bakharev his team are working on may be an important first step towards this goal. Tokamaks confine plasma – a hot, ionized gas – using magnetic fields ...

the plasma ‘fuel’ must be confined at high temperature and pressure, typically achieved with powerful magnetic fields. There are two leading designs of experimental fusion reactor, tokamak and ...

A new record for maintaining plasma burning inside a fusion reactor has been set in France, beating China's previous ...

The WEST tokamak just broke the record for retaining hot fusion plasma, holding on to it for an unprecedented 22 minutes. WEST and other tokamaks are paving the way for ITER which, upon completion ...

China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) fusion energy reactor, also known as the 'artificial sun', has ...

A tokamak device, jointly developed by Japan and Europe, has achieved a plasma volume of 160 cubic meters. The achievement has been officially certified by Guinness World Records. Superconducting ...

The WEST tokamak operated by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) set this 1,337-second time ...

Feb. 18, 2025 — French research organization CEA reported that on 12 February, the CEA’s WEST tokamak maintained a nuclear fusion plasma for more than 22 minutes, a 25 percent improvement over the ...

Scientists sustained nuclear fusion plasma for 22 minutes, marking significant progress in sustainable clean energy research.

Japan’s JT-60SA fusion reactor project announced first plasma in October of this year to denote the successful upgrades to what is now the world’s largest operational, superconducting tokamak ...