Westinghouse Electric Co. and officials with the ITER project in France signed a contract for $180 million for the assembly of the vacuum vessel for the fusion reactor. This is a key milestone in ...

The race to recreate the sun’s power on Earth just hit a major milestone. Scientists operating a powerful fusion reactor, often nicknamed China’s “artificial sun,” set a world record that ...

Scientists have used collision detection--pioneered in video games--to achieve huge efficiency gains in nuclear fusion.

Richard Garwin’s role in designing the hydrogen bomb was obscured from the public, even his family, as he advised presidents and devoted his life to undoing the danger he created.

ITER engineers expect their tokamak reactor to generate 500 megawatts (Mw) of fusion power using just 50 Mw of input heating–compared with a nuclear fission reactor ’s roughly 1,000 Mw of ...

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 ...

Plasmoid-based fusion “opens the doors to a novel kind of small fusion reactor, comparable in size to a desktop computer,” the company says. “After three years of research and development, we have ...

A fusion reactor could pave the way for massive generation of clean energy. Donald Trump blasts $30 billion Iran nuclear deal report: "hoax" Rebekah Del Rio death: Mulholland Drive singer dies ...

Limitless power from nuclear fusion may be a step closer following the accidental discovery of a new process to supply the isotope lithium-6, which is vital to providing fuel for a sustainable ...

Canadian startup General Fusion has been working on its unique approach to producing clean energy through nuclear fusion for two decades, and it's now got something major to show for it. The ...