For decades, nuclear fusion has been viewed as the ultimate energy source—clean, powerful, and practically limitless. Most approaches to fusion involve enormous machines designed to squeeze plasma ...

Researchers have made a leap forward in the pursuit of clean, endless energy. A team at General Atomics, a U.S. Department of Energy-backed facility, has unveiled a key advance in nuclear fusion, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nuclear fusion promises a green and infinitely renewable supply of energy—if we can harness it. Fusion happens all the time inside ...

Net power through nuclear fusion, a long dreamed-of goal, may finally be within reach. Fusion technology is moving out of the lab and many companies, including recently-founded ones, are striving to ...

On the path toward a fusion power plant, stellarators are among the most promising concepts. In the future, they could generate usable energy by fusing light atomic nuclei. This reaction must take ...

Workers monitor the Kazakhstan tokamak for material testing, a circular machine in a large white room. The Kazakhstan tokamak for material testing generated its first plasma in 2019. Credit: National ...

Google signed the first direct corporate power purchase agreement for nuclear fusion energy with Commonwealth Fusion Systems. The global race to achieve commercial nuclear fusion is intensifying, with ...

The U.S. government has launched the process to develop a regulatory framework to develop fusion machines as emerging nuclear technologies. This step to advance fusion machines was announced Feb. 26 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UBC boosts fusion reactions with electrochemical loading in a benchtop reactor, opening new paths for fusion research. (CREDIT: ...