China is constructing a massive laser-ignited fusion research facility in Mianyang, with a structure resembling the U.S. National Ignition Facility (NIF). Satellite images suggest the experiment bay ...
Scientists just set a new record in attempts to create an 'artificial Sun' down here on planet Earth. The team behind the ...
Chinese researchers set a new record by sustaining a nuclear fusion reaction at 100 million degrees Celsius for 1,066 seconds ...
A new compact tokamak designed to contain negative triangularity plasma is officially online in Spain. Called the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak (SMART), this reactor is part of the University of ...
China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), referred to as the "artificial sun," has achieved a new milestone in nuclear fusion research. The reactor maintained ...
The experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST) fusion energy reactor set a new record at Hefei, capital of east ...
A nuclear fusion reactor in China, dubbed the "artificial sun," has broken its own record to bring humanity one step closer ...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $107 million in funding for multiple projects in the Fusion Innovative Research Engine (FIRE) Collaboratives. The agency also said that several privately ...
Since initiating the program’s design phase two years ago, the DARPA-NASA management team has encountered the challenges inherent in sending a nuclear reactor into space for the first time in ...
It is the first time the metal has been produced to high enough strength to withstand the extreme temperatures and neutron radiation of nuclear fusion reactors at an industrial scale. Fusion-grade ...
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It could pave the way for the successful operation of ITER, the world’s largest nuclear fusion reactor under construction in France. Runaway electrons are negatively charged particles that can ...