Creating and sustaining fusion reactions—essentially recreating star-like conditions on Earth—is extremely difficult, and ...

RealClearScience published a portion of our interview with Laban Coblentz, ITER's Head of Communication. He told RCS how the ...

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Scientists and engineers from eight nations have carried out a project using lasers on the Joint European Torus (JET) to study fusion fuel retention. Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS), an ...

Pro-Palestinian activists have seemingly put up anti-Israeli posters on the London Underground, accusing Britain of spying on behalf of Israel. An image of the advert, on the Jubilee Line at London ...

China is making strides in laser-ignited fusion research with the construction of a new facility in Mianyang. This development has potential ramifications for nuclear weapons design and clean energy ...

while other fusion companies have put forward decade-long timelines. Scientists are less optimistic. “I even think ten years is very ambitious,” Saskia Mordijck, a physics professor at The ...

Exclusive-Images Show China Building Huge Fusion Research Facility ... Reuters questions to the "competent authority". China's Science and Technology Ministry did not respond to a request for ...

SINGAPORE, Jan 28 (Reuters) - China appears to be building a large laser-ignited fusion research centre in ... to the "competent authority". China's Science and Technology Ministry did not respond ...

and the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), both part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). "A fusion device must achieve stable operation at high efficiency for thousands of seconds to ...

Now, a new and compact fusion reactor in Spain—the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak, or SMART—is further experimenting with negative triangularity at the Plasma Science and Fusion Technology ...

China has achieved a major milestone in the quest for practical commercial fusion power ... In part, this has been a matter of pure science. In part, it's been a major technical challenge.