OpenStar Technologies, a New Zealand-based fusion energy startup, has trapped plasma inside a levitated superconducting magnet, a feat that no company or laboratory had previously achieved with ...

Nuclear fusion, the process that powers every star in the observable universe, has moved from theoretical physics into the realm of real laboratory results. On December 5, 2022, scientists achieved ...

Chinese scientists break a historic barrier and achieve the highest plasma density in a nuclear fusion reactor.

China breaks a historic barrier in nuclear fusion, bringing the dream of nearly infinite energy closer to reality.

In a spacious room with towering ceilings, a gleaming device resembling a metal barrel the size of an SUV lies on its side, ready to perform some science. Known as the Facility for Laboratory ...

In inertial confinement fusion, a capsule of fuel begins at temperatures near zero and pressures close to vacuum. When lasers compress that fuel to trigger fusion, the material heats up to millions of ...

1,337 seconds: that was how long WEST, a tokamak run from the CEA Cadarache site in southern France and one of the EUROfusion consortium medium size Tokamak facilities, was able to maintain a plasma ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Experiments inside a fusion reactor in China have demonstrated a new way to circumvent one of the caps on the density of the ...

Scientists have long seen a puzzling pattern in tokamaks, the doughnut-shaped machines that could one day reliably generate electricity from fusing atoms. When plasma particles escape the core of the ...

Realization of digital-twin control by connecting Large Helical Device (LHD) (Toki, Gifu) located at NIFS and the Plasma Simulator supercomputer (Rokkasho, Aomori), jointly procured by NIFS and QST, ...

changes in the topology of the field by breaking and reconnecting the magnetic field lines. This process occurs in (magnetohydrodynamic) "sawtooth" oscillations in tokamak plasmas, in sun spots, and ...