"These are the most comprehensive disruption simulations that had been done to that point." Researchers achieve exciting ...

The WEST reactor, in southern France ... (with a low atomic mass number), forming a heavier element. For fusion to occur, ...

Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion reactors. The new approach doesn’t require toxic mercury, as conventional methods ...

These systems now rank among the best in the world, and they’ve helped set multiple records in China’s fusion research,’ ...

Lithium-6 is a crucial material for nuclear fusion reactors, but isolating it is challenging – now researchers have found a ...

No. Although hydrogen bombs do use fusion reactions, they require an additional fission bomb to detonate. Working conditions of a magnetically-confined fusion reactor require a limited amount of fuel ...

Fusion reactions are the same source that power stars -- where hydrogen atoms smash and fuse together into helium creating a ...

Japan’s JT-60SA fusion reactor project announced first plasma ... Although the JT-60SA is only using hydrogen and later deuterium as its fuel rather than the deuterium-tritium (D-T) mixture ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) marked a major milestone Tuesday morning, announcing the installation of a key component of its SPARC demonstration reactor ... from a hydrogen fuel derived ...

In the Taeyang, light atoms such as hydrogen fuse in a plasma state ... Domestic researchers aim to overcome existing limitations by developing an innovative fusion reactor. Yoon Si-woo, deputy ...

The extreme physical conditions required to fuse the nuclei of hydrogen atoms together mean ... a "system of systems Grand Challenge". "A fusion reactor is an incredibly complex, strongly coupled ...