Fusion technologies are rapidly moving up the performance curve as world records tumble. The road to commercialisation is ...

SMART tokamak achieves the first plasma using negative triangularity, marking a step toward clean, limitless fusion energy ...

Recently, Commonwealth Fusion, which is building a demonstration tokamak in Massachussets, started construction of the ...

These systems now rank among the best in the world, and they’ve helped set multiple records in China’s fusion research,’ chief designer says.

This could lower energy costs for everyone without spewing harmful pollutants into the atmosphere. Scientists make incredible ...

Inspired by China's successes, the United Kingdom is testing new superconductor technology in nuclear fusion reactors.

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 ...

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 ...

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A visualization of high energy particles, in the form of plasma, flowing through a tokamak-type reactor. (Photo: Shutterstock) In our sun’s core, extreme temperatures and the immense pressure created ...