China builds its most advanced fusion reactor BEST by 2027, aiming to achieve commercial fusion power by 2030 through state ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The plasma density barrier is a mathematical limit to the density of plasma that can exist in a tokamak before destabilizing. A new study led by a ...

China’s flagship fusion experiment has pushed plasma density beyond a limit that many physicists treated as a hard ceiling, jolting a field that has chased star power for decades. By holding an ...

Analyses of China’s broader program note that China advances toward fusion ignition with major plasma breakthroughs in its fully superconducting tokamak. The new density regime fits squarely into that ...

All of these new developments don’t mean that the sun is ready to give up its fusion monopoly, as many significant ...

Driven by the need for new energy, Germany has committed €1.7 billion in funding and partnered with companies like Proxima ...

Getting a significant energy return from tokamak-based nuclear fusion reactors depends for a large part on plasma density, but increasing said density is tricky, as beyond a certain point the plasma ...