Plasma discharge in the ASDEX Upgrade fusion device. The plasma edge is guided to the tungsten divertor plates at the bottom. (Photographic resolution limited by performance of the CCD camera used.) ...

Canadian energy company General Fusion has achieved a world-first with its creation of a magnetized plasma in a target ...

Two British firms have collaborated to develop critical technologies that can lead to a commercial pathway for fusion energy.

Shorter-Lived Waste: Fusion waste is considerably less hazardous and has a shorter half-life than the waste generated by fission reactors. There are still some key hurdles that need to be overcome ...

Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...

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Small modular reactors are compact nuclear reactors that can be combined ... is the main driver to deteriorate the performance of fusion power plants. This work presents an unprecedented ...

Ban on liquid mercury usage has meant that US is sitting on a diminishing stockpile of lithium-6 since the 1960s.

Speaking ahead of a visit to Barrow on Thursday – where he will lay the keel for the next generation of Britain’s nuclear deterrent submarines – the prime minister said it has proven ...

Jackson Oswalt, at the age of 12, achieved nuclear fusion in his home lab in Memphis, supported by his parents who valued his passion for science. His accomplishment earned him the Guinness World ...

Limitless power from nuclear fusion may be a step closer following the accidental discovery of a new process to supply the isotope lithium-6, which is vital to providing fuel for a sustainable ...

Nuclear fusion reactors, if and when they become practical, will need a steady supply of fuel. The source of that fuel is the uncommon lithium isotope lithium-6. And the established process to ...