Nuclear fusion aims to control inherently unstable plasma, offering a highly efficient energy source with minimal fuel use and no long-lived radioact

Plasma was kept stable for 22 minutes at the French research reactor WEST. The team wants to achieve several hours in future.

WEST, a tokamak run from the CEA Cadarache site in southern France and one of the EUROfusion consortium medium size Tokamak facilities, was able to maintain a plasma for on 12 February. This was a 25% improvement on the previous record time achieved with EAST,

China’s EAST reactor has achieved a new milestone by sustaining plasma at 100 million degrees Celsius for 1,066 seconds. This achievement marks a significant step toward harnessing nuclear fusion as a limitless energy source.

Nuclear fusion has the much-vaunted potential to provide the world with clean, safe and nearly inexhaustible energy. Read more at straitstimes.com.

France has taken a major leap forward in the race for nuclear fusion energy, achieving a new world record for plasma duration. On February 12, 2025, scientists at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) successfully sustained a plasma reaction for 1,