Nuclear fusion has long been the energy world’s moonshot, a reaction so powerful and so difficult to tame that many ...

Most efforts to build a fusion power plant focus on the tokamak design, which consists of a donut-shaped structure housing ...

Teams in France are assembling the core of ITER, the gigantic experiment that seeks to harness energy from fusion, similar to that of a star.

In February, France's WEST nuclear fusion reactor made a big step toward getting clean, star-like energy for everyone. The machine held superheated plasma for 1,337 seconds, or just over 22 minutes.

There is a widespread misapprehension that controlling nuclear fusion is hard. In fact so long as you are not hoping to use the process to produce electricity, controlling fusion is easy. Indeed, it ...

Germany pivots to nuclear fusion, partnering with Focused Energy and RWE. Breakthroughs at Lawrence Livermore bring ...

“We hope this work helps bring fusion science out of the giant national labs and onto the lab bench,” says Berlinguette. “Our approach brings together nuclear fusion, materials science, and ...

A nuclear fusion reactor in Germany has reached world record numbers for runtime. The tokamak dominates fusion research in 2025, but stellarators are making a comeback. A stellarator is still a donut ...

Once a testing ground for Soviet weapons, the country is using a unique facility to find materials that withstand plasma that ...