About 60 years ago, Russian physicist Lev Artsimovich said nuclear fusion “will be ready when society needs it”. The UK has achieved a “major breakthrough for fusion energy research”, the UK Atomic ...

The race to commercialize fusion energy in the U.S. continues. On October 16, 2025, the U.S. Department of Energy (“DOE”) released a Fusion Science & Technology Roadmap (the “Roadmap”) outlining a ...

The footage offers an unprecedentedly colorful look at the extreme physics at play—revealing valuable information for researchers studying fusion. Reading time 2 minutes Nuclear fusion may always be ...

Humanity probably isn’t on the cusp of a nuclear fusion revolution just yet. But along the way, we are getting some peeks at mind-blowing fusion experiments, so what’s the big rush? We submit this new ...

Energy Sec. Chris Wright said the roadmap focuses on scaling national lab infrastructure to support private-sector fusion projects through the 2030s. “We need the commercial efforts, but we need the ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Department of Energy is amping up its funding presence in fusion energy generation through private sector collaboration and by ...

Double-shell liquid deuterium-tritium (DT) capsules provide for a new platform to study fusion plasmas under extreme conditions. Unlike single-shell capsules typically used in ignition experiments, ...

Chinese scientists set world record with magnetic field 700,000 times Earth’s. Credit: ASIPP In Hefei, China, physicists switched on a new machine that pushed magnetic fields to record strength. As ...

A powerful new AI tool called Diag2Diag is revolutionizing fusion research by filling in missing plasma data with synthetic yet highly detailed information. Developed by Princeton scientists and ...

Bob Mumgaard, CEO of the company Commonwealth Fusion Systems, testifies at a House Science Committee hearing on fusion on Sept. 18, 2025. U.S. efforts to develop fusion power technologies need a $10 ...

An innovative method for trapping lithium ions has led to a promising technology for extracting precious lithium isotopes—a crucial ingredient for fueling nuclear fusion experiments. Reading time: ...

Fusion plasma physics learning suite demonstrating FUSE.jl capabilities through realistic tokamak plasma modeling. Includes complete analysis, educational examples, and tuning guidance for fusion ...