Researchers in France have set an impressive new record. For 22 breathtaking minutes, blazing-hot plasma swirled inside the ...

Fusion technology is likely far from powering a grid — if it ever will. Dozens of fusion startups have launched anyway.

While the vast majority of Americans do not hold a degree in physics, they fully understand that fusion energy may very well ...

Proxima Fusion, a two-year-old, German nuclear fusion startup, has published plans for a working fusion power plant in a peer-reviewed journal, in what is being touted as a step-change in the race to ...

The Energy Department, via the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is boosting research into fusion energy.

Chinese scientists sustain plasma at 100 million degrees C for 1,066 seconds in EAST, advancing nuclear fusion research.

The amount of energy produced from fusion is very large — four times as much as nuclear fission reactions — and fusion reactions can be the basis of future fusion power reactors. Plans call for ...

WEST, a tokamak run from the CEA Cadarache site in southern France and one of the EUROfusion consortium medium size Tokamak ...

Helion Energy says its series F raise will fund it through the deployment of the first-ever commercial nuclear fusion plant.

Today’s nuclear fission reactors create radioactive waste, whereas nuclear fusion releases vast amounts of energy, with zero carbon emissions and only minimal radiation. Tokamaks and ...

The dream of controlled, long-lasting fusion energy There are two types of nuclear energy: fission and fusion. Nuclear fission, used in current power plants, involves splitting heavy atomic nuclei ...

A new bill introduced in the New Jersey Legislature aims to classify fusion energy as a Class I renewable energy source under ...