The central solenoid is the heart of a fusion reactor, and a "jacket" of meticulously crafted stainless steel—capable of ...

Bombarding steel samples. To address this, researchers have been developing a type of reduced activation ferritic/martensitic ...

If Sir Isaac Newton’s wildest dream is finally coming true, we could be on the brink of a new type of gold rush.

The alchemist's dream is to make gold from common metals, but can this be done? The physics needed to explain how to change ...

A new class of advanced steels needs more fine-tuning before use in system components for fusion energy—a more sustainable ...

Helion is one of three developers to amass $1 billion in investments, according to the 2025 annual report by the Fusion ...

A nuclear fusion startup has conducted computer simulations and concluded that it is theoretically possible to produce gold ...

The Wendelstein 7-X stellarator in Germany set a record with 43 seconds of plasma, marking a major step toward clean, ...

In 2022, the United States made global headlines when researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved net energy output from fusion for the first time. China is now doubling down on ...

In addition, FRC allows a reactor to run on proton-boron aneutronic fusion. That is, a fusion reaction that fuses a hydrogen nucleus and a boron-11 atom instead of two atoms of the hydrogen ...

The world’s largest and most powerful superconducting electromagnet is ready to become the pulsing “heart” inside of a massive tokamak nuclear fusion reactor. Developed over 40 years in ...

A 1-gigawatt fusion reactor is expected to burn 56 kilograms of tritium annually. But the world has only about 25 kilograms of tritium commercially available.