DOE is facing a challenging task of determining which competing fusion technologies should be funded to try and produce carbon-free fusion power for the U.S. grid. The Department of Energy on Tuesday ...

Proponents of nuclear fusion have long promised to create nearly limitless power here on earth by harnessing the same reaction that powers the sun. Today, fusion’s biggest hurdle is ensuring that any ...

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A Knoxville nuclear company backed by Bill Gates has asked Tennessee for a license to help it build the world’s first fusion power plant.

Fusion power, long hailed as the holy grail of clean energy, has faced decades of scientific and engineering challenges. Recent breakthroughs, however, have brought this dream closer to reality than ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems received the zoning approval needed for its planned Chesterfield County facility that’s expected to be the world’s first grid-scale commercial nuclear fusion power plant.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a spinout from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced plans on Tuesday to build the world's first grid-scale commercial nuclear fusion power plant in ...

Commercial fusion power plants may be cheaper and easier to build thanks to a breakthrough by TAE Technologies that allows reactors to generate their own containment fields without the need for ...

It's been almost 90 years since scientists made the first fusion reaction in a lab. But trying to create power from fusion presents a lot of problems. Two experts explain how long it could take until ...