By examining the Large Helical Device, a massive fusion research device designed to confine heated plasma and harness fusion ...

Steve Zinkle will speak on “Materials for Nuclear Power Applications” at noon Tuesday, Jan. 13, to Friends of ORNL. His talk is open to the public.

Engineers in the United Kingdom are racing to build metal shields that can survive conditions similar to the center of the ...

Fusion researchers in China have found a new way to run their “artificial sun” reactor at much higher fuel density than ...

R esearchers have been able to experimentally enter, for the first time, a new nuclear fusion regime, with plasma density ...

But on January 1, researchers working on China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) — often dubbed the ...

In a remarkable advancement for nuclear fusion research, scientists have achieved a significant breakthrough in operating a fusion reactor beyond a plasma density limit that has long constrained ...

The Thunderbird Reactor is small enough to fit on a lab bench, making it possible for universities and small labs to join the race. “We hope this work helps bring fusion science out of the giant ...

As the world races to build the first commercial nuclear fusion plant, engineers from the University of Surrey have made a breakthrough in understanding how welded components behave inside the extreme ...

Scientists in China have made a significant breakthrough in nuclear fusion, advancing efforts towards a next-generation clean ...

To bring costs down, the US would need to mass produce reactors and cultivate a supply chain. This is similar to the ...

Getting a significant energy return from tokamak-based nuclear fusion reactors depends for a large part on plasma density, ...