Magnetic confinement fusion represents a promising avenue for realising sustainable and high‐yield energy production. In these systems, plasma – a highly ionised state of matter – is ...

Tokamaks, which use magnets to contain the high-temperature plasma in which atomic nuclei fuse and release energy, have captured the spotlight in recent months, due to tremendous advances in ...

Fusion energy startup Realta Fusion today announced the publication of two papers in the Journal of Plasma Physics that dramatically advance the scientific basis for the magnetic mirror approach to ...

The global fusion energy market, driven by international collaborations and private ventures, is advancing rapidly with a focus on magnetic and inertial confinement approaches. Key projects like ...

Roughly 15 use magnetic confinement, with at least eight using inertial methods, the trade group’s data shows. It is unclear how impactful last week’s announcement from the laser field will be ...

More information: A. Dal Molin et al, Measurement of the Gamma-Ray-to-Neutron Branching Ratio for the Deuterium-Tritium Reaction in Magnetic Confinement Fusion Plasmas, Physical Review Letters (2024).

The way scientists think about fusion changed forever in 2022, when what some called the experiment of the century demonstrated for the first time that fusion can be a viable source of clean energy.

But they ripped it up and started again with Polaris, its seventh. Both employ Magneto-Inertial fusion, a combination of inertial and magnetic confinement the company says is smaller and lower cost.

The Fusion Industry Association is tracking 33 startups. Fifteen are focused on the magnetic approach, and eight are working on the laser design. The rest are pursuing a variety of other technologies.

Most fusion experiments and startups use magnets to confine and control the plasma. In magnetic confinement, powerful superconducting magnets compress the plasma into one of a range of shapes ...

Now, grants from the Laboratory for Laser Energetics and Sandia National Lab support Bose's research in inertial confinement fusion with applied magnetic fields. “Fusion is what powers everything on ...