Recent fusion breakthroughs have generated interest from investors like Sam Altman and Bill Gates—along with some unrealistic ...

In an unassuming industrial park 30 miles outside Boston, engineers are building a futuristic machine to replicate the energy that powers the stars. If all goes to plan, it could be the key to ...

Fusion could be a better source of clean energy than wind and solar Krisiloff said what makes ... or fission, which is a chain reaction. That means if something happens to the machine producing ...

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 ...

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 ...

and where the main challenge is to keep the nuclear chain reaction within safe bounds, nuclear fusion means making atoms do something that goes against their very nature, outside of a star’s ...

Harnessing nuclear fusion — the same atom-colliding reaction that powers the Sun and ... believes fusion energy can complement wind and solar power and become a “decisive building block ...

The truth is more complicated, not least because the longest ever sustained reaction ... from fusion engineers to fusion scientists all the way down the constitution supply chain and that requires ...

The donut-shaped machine Commonwealth Fusion Systems is assembling to generate ... or Chernobyl where there’s this runaway chain reaction.” Even though it will tower 30 feet, about three ...