Clean energy from nuclear fusion may soon be commercial. But leaders around the world have done little to prepare.
Proxima Fusion, spun out of Germany’s Max Planck Institute (the team behind the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator), raised a record €130 million in 2025, later extended to €200 million. It’s fast emerging ...
China builds its most advanced fusion reactor BEST by 2027, aiming to achieve commercial fusion power by 2030 through state planning and industrial investment.
Japanese fusion energy startup Helical Fusion Co., Ltd. has begun Phase 1 of Helix ...
Michael Hua, director of nuclear, chemical, and materials engineering at Helion Energy, spoke with UW engineers about ...
A UK firm has announced a world-first set of “super” magnets that can be used for testing nuclear fusion power plants. Tokamak Energy said the Demo4 magnet has a magnetic field strength that is nearly ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, scientists have dreamed of unlocking the power of the stars—a clean, limitless energy source that could end our ...
Workers monitor the Kazakhstan tokamak for material testing, a circular machine in a large white room. The Kazakhstan tokamak for material testing generated its first plasma in 2019. Credit: National ...
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 ...
There’s only one fusion device on earth that has been able to meet a key scientific threshold, but Maritime Fusion CEO Justin Cohen is already preparing to put a fusion reactor on a boat. Stay with me ...
WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Fusion energy, an emerging technology that backers hope will one day generate electricity without producing long-lived radioactive waste, got a path toward regulation on ...