Fusion power has long been promised as a clean, abundant energy source, but scientists have struggled to harness it ...

Their work was focused mostly on improving the field-reversed configuration (FRC), a magnetic confinement technique. As the researchers note, generating fusion reactions involves first generating ...

Fusion energy startup Realta Fusion, a University of Wisconsin-Madison partner, announced they are moving into the next phase ...

The National Ignition Facility, home of the first net-positive fusion reaction, is back with an even more powerful energy ...

The leakage of high-energy alpha particles prevents the plasma from reaching the necessary temperature and density to sustain the fusion reaction. Engineers design intricate magnetic confinement ...

A new shortcut can help engineers design leak-proof magnetic confinement systems for fusion reactors 10 times as fast as the gold standard method, without sacrificing accuracy. While several other ...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Ignition Facility increased the yield of the experiment in recent attempts.

The success of such experiments depends on multiple key factors, including optimized magnetic fields that could display enhanced fusion plasma confinement. Introduced by researchers at Laboratorio ...

Nuclear fusion reactors are highly powerful technologies that can generate energy by fusing (i.e., joining) two light atomic ...

The road to those milestones has proven extraordinarily costly. Though General Fusion’s tally may seem impressive, it is middle of the pack. Commonwealth Fusion Systems has raised over $2 billion, ...

As covered previously, plasma stability is a problem with the popular approach of tokamak-based magnetic confinement fusion (MCF). Although this core problem has now been largely addressed ...

And that’s just for inertial confinement. Another method of achieving fusion, called magnetic confinement fusion, relies on holding plasma (a state of matter where atoms are stripped of their ...