Proxima Fusion, a two-year-old German nuclear fusion startup, has published plans for a working fusion power plant in a peer-reviewed journal, in what is being touted as an important change in the ...

A student’s small bedroom has become a hotspot for nuclear fusion experiments. With no fancy lab or deep-pocketed sponsors, the work is entirely driven by curiosity and grit. Hudhayfa Nazoordeen, a ...

After more than a decade of fabrication and testing, the sixth and final module of ITER’s central solenoid has arrived at the fusion reactor’s construction site in Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, southern ...

France endured for 22 minutes, and China surpassed 1,000 seconds. Now, Korea is also setting out to establish a national strategy aimed at the era of ...

German startup Proxima Fusion — whose team includes engineers from MIT, Google, SpaceX, and McLaren — has unveiled a fusion energy reactor design it believes offers the quickest route to commercially ...

Fusion power has long been promised as a clean, abundant energy source, but scientists have struggled to harness it effectively. A new approach, however, may finally bring fusion reactors closer to ...

Predicted motions of hundreds of particles in a fusion reactor. The motions predicted with the new method (orange, red) agree very closely with those predicted by Newton's laws (blue, green), but can ...

For decades, anyone who wanted to build a nuclear plant in the United States faced the same gauntlet: containment domes, ...

An innovative algorithm for detecting collisions of high-speed particles within nuclear fusion reactors has been developed, inspired by technologies used to determine whether bullets hit targets in ...

Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies.