Inside a doughnut-shaped reactor in southern France, a cloud of electrically charged gas recently burned at tens of millions ...

Inside a fusion reactor, the very radiation that signals progress toward limitless energy also blinds the instruments trying ...

The Korean artificial sun, KSTAR, broke its previous plasma operation record during its first plasma campaign after upgrading its divertors, one of plasma facing components, to tungsten monoblocks.

Scientists have demonstrated a new plasma operating regime that could help solve two of fusion energy’s biggest challenges at ...

Europe and Japan have restarted integrated commissioning on JT-60SA, the world’s largest operating tokamak, as they prepare for a new round of plasma experiments expected to begin at the end of 2026 ...

This company says its pulsed plasma machine will deliver electricity to the grid by 2029. Some physicists warn that its ...

(a) Control scheme used for reinforcement learning (RL). (b) RL control successfully drives plasma through the valley of tearability, avoiding instabilities. The effective use of an AI/DRL algorithm ...

Heating a plasma for fusion research requires megawatts of power. One approach that research tokamaks use to achieve the necessary power input is neutral beam injection (NBI). With NBI, fast neutral ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Richmond-based company has achieved significant fusion neutron yield and plasma stability. General Fusion attained world-first ...

Across decades of development, scientists have been pursuing nuclear fusion technology through endless experiments, calculations and simulations, trying to find the optimal mix of conditions for atoms ...

The ancient village of Culham, nestled in a bend of the River Thames west of London, seems an unlikely launching pad for the future. But next year, construction will start here on a gleaming building ...