The most powerful pulsed superconducting magnet system ever built is now complete, and will soon be part of the world’s grandest energy experiment. The system is the Central Solenoid of the ...
The reactors built by private companies, being smaller than ITER-scale projects, will be much more affordable. Tokamak Energy’s co-founder, David Kingham, envisages billion-dollar devices, and ...
The company raised $425 million in January 2025, around the same time that it turned on Polaris, a prototype reactor. Helion has raised $1.03 billion, according to PitchBook. Investors include Sam ...
The San Diego company General Atomics celebrated its shipment of a device that will make nuclear fusion possible. KPBS sci-tech reporter Thomas Fudge tells us about fusion energy and the world's most ...
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is decades in the making, and is humanity’s leading effort to harness the energy that powers the Sun. ITER announced this week that the ...
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US lab opens door for plasma jets to skip lasers for nuclear fusion breakthrough
The PLX project is developing a new way to achieve nuclear fusion. The machine works by firing dozens of high-speed plasma ...
Perhaps Liu’s return to China signaled his belief that his native country was about to take the lead in the world fusion race. China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) is a nuclear ...
RICHMOND, British Columbia, Jan. 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- General Fusion has published new, peer-reviewed scientific results that validate the company has achieved the smooth, rapid, and symmetric ...
A view of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion reactor, as seen on September 18, 2015 at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald, Germany. A twisting ribbon of hydrogen gas, many times hotter ...
Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The world’s largest and most powerful superconducting ...
It's the so-called "holy grail" of clean energy production: fusion power. Fusion reactions are the same source that power stars -- where hydrogen atoms smash and fuse together into helium, creating a ...
GF is taking yet another approach, called magnetized target fusion. It involves the plasma being compressed more slowly — for instance, using pistons — but with the aid of magnetic confinement that ...
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