Fusion power could solve the world's energy problems. The issue is making it work in a cost-effective way. A new breakthrough ...

He reminded that fusion differs from fission, which splits atoms and creates radioactive waste. “Instead, think of joining ...

Helion Energy is simultaneously proving out its technology, constructing its first commercial plant, and building ...

Hosted by the University of California San Diego, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and General Atomics, with the support of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, the ...

Physicists at UC Santa Cruz will receive $555,000 of that to develop a literal gem of a monitoring system that such power plants will need to safely generate fusion energy—a system that incorporates ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ planned $2.5 billion-plus Chesterfield County facility, which could be the world’s first grid-scale commercial nuclear fusion energy plant, is advancing through the county ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems faces a litany of challenges, from complex physics and difficult engineering to building a supply ...

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Westinghouse Electric Company and ITER signed a contract for $180 million for the assembly of the vacuum vessel for the fusion reactor. This is a key ...

Living up to its name, University of Washington spin-off company ZAP Energy's Century system is developing fusion power technology by blasting plasma with super-lightning-like pulses 12 times per ...

The breakthrough scientific moment for fusion power—and the potential for nearly limitless electricity from a so-called star in a jar—came at the end of 2022 when scientists at Lawrence Livermore ...

If it looks like the set of some Hollywood sci-fi show, perhaps that's fitting, because what they are doing here is making stars on Earth. "We are able to make miniature stars, 'cause fusion is the ...