A team of nuclear fusion researchers is trying to bring order to electron movement inside reactors. It's not an easy task, as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nuclear fusion promises a green and infinitely renewable supply of energy—if we can harness it. Fusion happens all the time inside ...

A persistent asymmetry in fusion exhaust has challenged researchers for years. New simulations show that plasma core rotation, working together with cross-field drifts, determines where particles land ...

Fusion energy promises clean power by mimicking stars. Scientists are focusing on the reactor wall's edge, where plasma meets ...

All of these new developments don’t mean that the sun is ready to give up its fusion monopoly, as many significant ...

To many businesses and people in the energy industry, fusion is presently the Holy Grail everybody is chasing. If, somehow, our species manages to replicate the process that powers the Sun, we might ...

The world’s most powerful magnet is being shipped to France for installation in the core of ITER, the experimental fusion reactor. It is hoped that ITER will prove the feasibility of creating fusion ...

New Zealand-based fusion energy startup OpenStar Technologies says it has become the first commercial company in the world to successfully create and confine plasma using a levitated dipole reactor.

A materials expert told Friends of ORNL that advanced nuclear reactors need 21st-century materials to withstand extreme ...

In a significant step forward for the development of high-temperature superconductors (HTS) for fusion applications, researchers from the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences ...