The current AI race has reached a bottleneck that can be relieved only by new sources of electrical generation. Read more ...

Two Los Alamos Laboratory scientists discovered Arthur Ruhlig’s major contributions to fusion physics, and they did so completely by accident.

An atom consists of a heavy center, called the nucleus, made of particles called protons and neutrons. An atom has lighter ...

Fusion energy market set to reach $840.3 Billion by 2040, fueled by clean energy goals, R&D investments, and deuterium-based innovations.< ...

Modern re-run shows that Arthur Ruhlig’s conclusions, which probably influenced early thinking about fusion energy, were ...

Why did they form at that time? Astronomers know from observing distant exploding stars that the size of the universe has been getting bigger since the Big Bang. When the hydrogen and helium atoms ...

Nature does not give up her secrets easily.” Such are the sentiments of NIF Senior Scientist John Lindl, summarizing the centuries-long quest to tap nuclear fusion a force that energizes the stars ...

More information: J. R. Pybus et al, First Measurement of Near-Threshold and Subthreshold J/ψ Photoproduction off Nuclei, Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.201903.

In 2023, EAST achieved the world’s first steady-state high-confinement plasma for 403 seconds, a world record it broke on January 20, 2025, by sustaining a plasma for 1,066 seconds ...

The most potent deuterium-tritium fusion reactions are possible only if the fusion reactor has a lithium blanket. Highly energetic (14 MeV) neutrons from the fusion reactions, the source of the ...

By fusing together plasma of two light nuclei (in this example, two atoms of the hydrogen isotope deuterium), the strong nuclear force binds together these isotopes into Helium-3 and releases ...

These neutrons, the announcement explained, may come from the energy-yielding fusion of deuterium (heavy hydrogen) nuclei. If the scientists can prove that they do, an important step will have ...