Beryllium, a hard, silvery metal long used in X-ray machines and spacecraft, is finding a new role in the quest to bring the power that drives the sun and stars to Earth. Beryllium is one of... Read more
The secrets to its success are lasers, magnets and a big pinch The Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico discharges the most intense pulses of electrical current on Earth.... Read more
It will generate “some 1 billion watts of power for several weeks on end” A fusion power demonstration reactor to be built in the 2030s in collaboration with the DoE’s Princeton Plasma... Read more
Generating electricity by nuclear fusion has long looked like a chimera. A reactor being built in Germany may change that AS THE old joke has it, fusion is the power of the future—and always... Read more
