That dream is nuclear fusion, and it’s no longer confined to science fiction. With breakthroughs in plasma physics, ...

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

Fusion power could solve the world's energy problems. The issue is making it work in a cost-effective way. A new breakthrough ...

Ant Group’s backing of fusion start-up Xeonova underscores the growing flow of capital in China’s experimental energy ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced on Dec. 13 “the achievement of fusion ignition.” The milestone is a major scientific breakthrough, decades in the making. Fusion, of course, is the ...

A team at the Colorado School of Mines is working to create hydrogen membranes for use in nuclear fusion power plants. The project, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems received the zoning approval needed for its planned Chesterfield County facility that’s expected to be the world’s first grid-scale commercial nuclear fusion power plant.

The quest to develop nuclear fusion—the process that energizes the sun and other stars—as an earth-based power source dates back more than a century when Albert Einstein and other scientists theorized ...