Clean energy from nuclear fusion may soon be commercial. But leaders around the world have done little to prepare.

All of these new developments don’t mean that the sun is ready to give up its fusion monopoly, as many significant hurdles—technical, scientific, and economic—still place our own homegrown star just ...

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 ...

The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority has opened a formal search for engineering and construction partners to deliver ...

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

Workers monitor the Kazakhstan tokamak for material testing, a circular machine in a large white room. The Kazakhstan tokamak for material testing generated its first plasma in 2019. Credit: National ...

Oxfordshire company appointed to bring its expertise to the UK’s first fusion prototype plant in Nottinghamshire. The ...

"Based on current knowledge and technological capabilities, achieving controlled nuclear fusion will take at least another 20 to 30 years," Wang Mingdan, a member of the 14th National Committee of the ...

Experiments at China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak have confirmed the existence of "a density-free region" of the tokamak, finding a method to break through the density limit and ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing numerous revisions to its controls on byproduct material produced by ...