"Weighing over 400 tonnes, measuring about 18 meters in diameter, and 5 meters in height, the Dewar base is not only the heaviest single component of BEST's main machine, but also the largest vacuum ...

In fusion, hydrogen isotopes are heated to extremely high temperatures until they form plasma – superheated, electrically ...

Once a government-led pursuit, nuclear fusion is now a private-capital race, much of it financed by the same people building ...

Fusion is among the most environmentally friendly sources of energy. There are no CO 2 or other harmful atmospheric emissions from the fusion process, which means that fusion does not contribute to ...

Berlin hopes the technology will provide abundant clean and reliable energy, but critics say it's a waste of money as the ...

A roadmap calls for legislation and financial incentives in California for the nascent fusion industry. But is it worth the ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) plans to build the world's first commercial nuclear fusion energy power plant in Virginia. This multi-billion dollar project slated for ...

A decades-old scientific controversy and a small bench-top apparatus at the University of British Columbia (UBC) could be the key to more efficient fusion reactors by increasing the chances of a ...

It’s rarely appreciated just how much more complicated nuclear fusion is than nuclear fission. Whereas the latter involves a process that happens all around us without any human involvement, and where ...

Last week, a British company experimenting with fusion energy released an exciting new video of the inside of a nuclear fusion reactor. For the uninitiated, fusion is the merging of atoms. Whereas ...

Lehigh University researchers are using mayonnaise as an analogue for the plasma generated during the nuclear fusion process, ...

Fusion energy developer Helion Energy has been granted a Conditional Use Permit by Chelan County, clearing the way for ...