Fusion energy, the process of fusing light atomic nuclei to generate energy, has long been considered the key to a clean and ...

Canadian startup General Fusion has been working on its unique approach to producing clean energy through nuclear fusion for ...

For decades, scientists have been working to develop reactors that can ... including optimized magnetic fields that could display enhanced fusion plasma confinement. Introduced by researchers ...

Scientists use magnetic confinement devices to manipulate plasmas. The most common fusion reactors of that kind are tokamaks and stellarators. Currently, these are the most promising concepts for ...

The reactor, called Lawson Machine 26 (LM26), is General Fusion’s latest iteration in a string of devices that have tested ...

ITER, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, may be the grandest scientific experiment in the world. Initially conceived forty years ago, the project aims to build the largest, most ...

More than 130 experimental nuclear fusion reactors, both public and private ... About 90 are in operation, most of them tokamaks or stellarators, which use forms of magnetic confinement to heat and ...

but a magnetic confinement fusion reactor requires a massive financial investment.