Nuclear fusion powers the stars and offers the promise of unlimited, clean energy on Earth. But controlled thermonuclear fusion in the lab usually requires large and expensive magnetic field... Read more
Alcator C-Mod tokamak nuclear fusion reactor sets world record on final day of operation. scientists and engineers at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center made a leap forward in the pursui... Read more
Fusion energy may soon be used in small-scale power stations. This means producing environmentally friendly heating and electricity at a low cost from fuel found in water. Both heating gener... Read more
The focus of research on fusion power has moved from big government programs to startups with novel designs. After three decades of expensive government-funded research that has failed to pr... Read more
Unfortunately, it is very difficult to get a fusion reaction going. Inspired by the space physics behind solar flares and the aurora, a team of researchers from the University of Michigan an... Read more
Machinery of an Energy Dream Fusion, the process that powers the sun, is the forever dream of energy scientists — safe, nonpolluting and almost boundless. Even here at Lawrence Livermore Nat... Read more
Ignition — the process of releasing fusion energy equal to or greater than the amount of energy used to confine the fuel — has long been considered the “holy grail” o... 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
Cheap, practical fusion may be closer than you think. Nuclear fusion is 30 years away, and always will be. That’s the refrain we’ve heard, again and again for decades. And yet, q... Read more
Researchers at a US lab have passed a crucial milestone on the way to their ultimate goal of achieving self-sustaining nuclear fusion. Harnessing fusion – the process that powers the S... Read more
Human travel to Mars has long been the unachievable dangling carrot for space programs. Now, astronauts could be a step closer to our nearest planetary neighbor through a unique manipulation... Read more
The study of the lithium coatings also impacts many areas beyond magnetic fusion, including nanoelectronics, lithium batteries, computational materials science, bioengineering and biophysics... Read more
One more major step towards the dream of nuclear fusion power. A researcher at the Universidad politécnica de Madrid (UPM) has patented a nuclear fusion reactor by inertial confinement that,... Read more
The researchers’ goal is to eliminate 99 percent of the most toxic transuranic waste from nuclear fission reactors. University of Texas at Austin physicists have been awarded a U.S. patent f... Read more
It’s the social engineering that’s the killer. Almost six years ago, I was the editor of a single-topic issue on energy for Scientific American that included an article by Princeton Universi... Read more
