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

Richard Feynman, a famous theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize, said that if he could pass on only one piece of ...

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 ...

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.

These types of nuclei are constantly produced in nuclear reactors, but until recently, studying their reactions has been extremely difficult. Reactor physics depends on this kind of data to predict ...

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 ...