Clean energy from nuclear fusion may soon be commercial. But leaders around the world have done little to prepare.

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 ...

China's Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak fusion facility (BEST) has entered a new construction phase as it speeds toward its 2027 target completion date. The state-run nuclear ...

Fusion power promises to generate large amounts of clean electricity from nearly limitless fuel. This article explains the ...

The National Natural Science Foundation of China released the country's top 10 scientific advances of 2025 during the opening ...

China has just crossed a threshold that many nuclear engineers have talked about for decades but no country had previously achieved at scale: turning thorium into a practical, operating source of low ...

Scientists in China have made a breakthrough with fusion energy that could finally overcome one of the most stubborn barriers to realising the next-generation energy source. A team from the Chinese ...

BEIJING, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Deep inside a huge lab at the "Science Island" in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, engineers are meticulously upgrading the core of China's "artificial sun, ...

The rapid rise of AI is both straining global energy systems and accelerating the race to achieve commercial nuclear fusion, ...

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 ...