Fusion reactions are the same source that power stars -- where hydrogen atoms smash and fuse together into helium creating a ...

The small nuclear power plants will use molten salt in their fuel, making them safer and more versatile and portable than ...

The extended funding round is intended to support Germany-based Marvel Fusion's transition from its research and development ...

Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems marked a major milestone Tuesday morning, announcing the installation of a key component of its Sparc demonstration reactor. The new part is a 24-foot wide, 75-ton ...

That’s why the Chinese are developing the China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor. But while China is in the lead position today, other major fusion projects are also moving forward. The ...

a superheated fourth state of matter required for fusion, inside a prototype reactor. The milestone marks the beginning of a 93-week quest to prove that the outfit’s steampunk approach to fusion ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors ...

“Fusion science has reached an inflection point,” said Vinodh Bandaru Researchers from China’s ‘artificial sun’ reactor maintained a sustained nuclear fusion reaction for 1,066 seconds. Just about a ...

The most common fusion reactors of this type are tokamaks and stellarators. Research by Liu has been published in top academic journals in his field, such as Physical Review Letters and Nuclear ...

Culham was previously home to a nuclear fusion reactor, which in its final test produced a record amount of energy. The reactor was decommissioned in 2024, with the government hoping to build the ...

That's the nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania whose reactor #2 had a partial meltdown in 1979. There were no injuries, and nobody died, but it set the nuclear industry back years. Only two new ...