For decades, nuclear fusion has been viewed as the ultimate energy source—clean, powerful, and practically limitless. Most ...

"We see this as a starting point." Scientists use custom-built 'Thunderbird' device to make game-changing energy breakthrough ...

Scientists have almost completed the development of the High Resolution Neutron Spectrometer (HRNS). The system will be used ...

A more esoteric use might be powering spacecraft. Existing craft destined for other planets use nuclear batteries—low-wattage ...

Over 43 startups companies are working on nuclear fusion and they have received over $6 billion in funding. This does not include the international and national Tokomak fusion programs. The IEEE ...

Los Alamos National Lab team is modelling the efficiency and cost of reactor designs that can generate tritium from waste ...

Industry supporters range from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, spearheaded by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, to former Energy ...

A byproduct of nuclear reactors, tritium is a nuclear fusion fuel but is also commonly used in medical applications and for illumination in devices such as watches and exit signs. Photo Courtesy ...

A Los Alamos collaboration has replicated an important but largely forgotten physics experiment: the first deuterium-tritium (DT) fusion observation. As described in the article published in Physical ...

It seems too good to be true, but UK-based Pulsar Fusion has revealed its new Sunbird self-contained nuclear rocket tug that uses a fusion propulsion engine that could reduce a trip to Mars to under ...