China delivers magnetic feeder system for ITER. The ITER, also named as the ‘artificial sun’ is one of the most important ...

Lawmakers introduced a package of bills to support nuclear fusion research, in hopes of creating a nuclear "Silicon Valley" ...

It’s rarely appreciated just how much more complicated nuclear fusion is than nuclear fission. Whereas the latter involves a process that happens all around us without any human involvement ...

Five hundred years ago, the Aztec civilization in today’s Mexico believed that the sun and all ... from fusion is very large — four times as much as nuclear fission reactions — and fusion reactions ...

Laser-powered nuclear fusion is now a reality! Achieved in just 20 quadrillionths of a second, this breakthrough could ...

British startup Pulsar Fusion has unveiled Sunbird, a space rocket concept designed to meet spacecraft in orbit, attach to ...

A startup company wants to establish mining operations on the moon to extract a rare isotope needed for future quantum computers and nuclear fusion reactors. And according to one of its scientific ...

“We will be driving a Ferrari and all we ... of the nuclear fusion device are initially put together. A segment of the tokamak’s vacuum vessel can be seen in the upper left. ITER stands for ...

All the nuclear power plants in operation right now use nuclear fission—the process of splitting apart an atom—to produce energy. But scientists have spent decades and entire careers in a ...

Limitless power from nuclear fusion may be a step closer following ... which is vital to providing fuel for a sustainable fusion reactor. The least challenging fusion process involves combining ...

Nuclear fusion reactors, if and when they become practical, will need a steady supply of fuel. The source of that fuel is the uncommon lithium isotope lithium-6. And the established process to ...