The international effort to build the world’s largest fusion reactor in southern France has entered a critical new phase, with project leaders adopting a revised 2024 baseline that acknowledges years ...

About 60 years ago, Russian physicist Lev Artsimovich said nuclear fusion “will be ready when society needs it”. The UK has achieved a “major breakthrough for fusion energy research”, the UK Atomic ...

Ever since nuclear fusion was first discovered in the 1930s, scientists have imagined ways to harness its energy. The earliest designs for nuclear fusion reactors began in earnest in the 1950s, with ...

A nuclear fusion reactor in Germany has reached world record numbers for runtime. The tokamak dominates fusion research in 2025, but stellarators are making a comeback. A stellarator is still a donut ...

A U.S. government-funded laboratory generated net energy during a recent nuclear fusion experiment, a first in a controlled fusion environment and a major achievement on the path to abundant, carbon ...

China has advanced its nuclear fusion program by developing and successfully testing the largest ever radiation-proof robot, capable of performing maintenance in massive fusion facilities. The global ...

In a modest workshop space in West Dallas, a seventh-grade student has achieved a result usually associated with university laboratories. Aiden McMill.

Recent breakthroughs in plasma density and duration at facilities in China, France, and South Korea have removed key technical barriers to fusion development. Major international projects like ITER, ...

The U.S. Department of Energy on Tuesday announced that a national lab in California made a "major scientific breakthrough"—namely, that it produced a nuclear fusion reaction that resulted in a net ...

Plasma physicist Debbie Callahan, chief strategy officer at Focused Energy, talks to Hamish Johnston about her work in laser fusion research ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists and companies have been trying for decades to harness fusion energy, the process that fires the sun, to generate electricity on Earth. A $6 billion deal announced on Dec. 18 to ...

In late 2022, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved a historic nuclear fusion breakthrough by creating a fusion reaction that produced more energy than the lasers used to create it. This ...