The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), commonly known as China's "artificial sun," has achieved a ...

China’s "artificial sun" EAST fusion reactor smashed the previous record for sustained plasma, advancing nuclear fusion ...

One of the most critical challenges in realizing nuclear fusion is the confinement of plasmas, which are the ultra-hot, ionized gases where fusion reactions occur. “Achieving high confinement is key ...

Union workers ready for job. If fusion works at some point, it will also cost much more than solar and will require enormous volumes of freshwater for its old heat engine technology. We need to ...

Global scientists have worked for more than 70 years on trying to achieve this feat. However, only after reaching ...

While nuclear power plants have become ubiquitous, they all operate using nuclear fission — but one energy startup has plans to change this. Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a spinoff branch ...

In fact, to power a fusion power plant at a typical scale ... scale grid storage for intermittent sources such as wind and solar. However, the UK does have strong fusion expertise as well ...