The company’s ambitious new Sunbird design aims to harness nuclear fusion in space, despite the fact that commercializing ...

No, because fusion energy production is not based on a chain reaction, as is fission. Plasma must be kept at very high temperatures with the support of external heating systems and confined by an ...

Neutrinos generated through solar ... nuclear fusion reactions are constantly pumping out neutrinos—tiny, nearly massless particles that travel through almost anything. Each type of reaction ...

but requires a chain reaction for the reactor to remain self-sustaining. By comparison, a fusion reactor generates an abundance of neutrons without the need for a chain reaction, but releases less ...

A nuclear reactor works in the same way that a concentrated solar plant with mirrors ... creating what’s known as a chain reaction. Nuclear fusion occurs when two atoms join together to form ...