The world's largest fusion experiment is about to go dark for three years, just as pressure mounts for clean energy breakthroughs. The shutdown at the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor ...

In the heart of Provence, Southern France, the world's largest fusion energy experiment, which could be a step towards unlimited energy, has quietly entered perhaps the most critical stage yet. The ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The plasma density barrier is a mathematical limit to the density of plasma that can exist in a tokamak before destabilizing. A new study led by a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sun-mimicking technology known as nuclear fusion hopes to create “limitless” energy by smashing light nuclei together using ...

Explore how fusion reactors, ITER tokamaks, plasma confinement, and deuterium tritium fuel work together to unlock net energy gain and deliver reliable, large-scale clean energy. Pixabay, ...

Nuclear energy is a cornerstone of the energy transition, delivering reliable, low-carbon power alongside renewables. New ...

Four years into Russia’s war with Ukraine, nearly all ties between Russian and European science have been severed. Russian ...

This cross section of ITER shows the inner walls of the fusion system. New experimental results suggest that sprinkling boron powder into the vessel could protect the inner walls from the plasma’s ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In the race for clean energy, no technology is quite as promising as nuclear fusion, but the road toward energy freedom is filled with barriers that ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Tungsten, represented unexpectedly by the letter W on the periodic table of elements (for wolframite, an ore where tungsten is often found), is ...