Billion-times more efficient fusion unlocked with low-frequency laser
A team of researchers has identified a mechanism that could lower the extreme temperature requirements for controlled nuclear…
China’s “Artificial Sun” Just Smashed a Key Fusion Barrier and Physics May Never Be the Same
As the world’s first superconducting tokamak, EAST（Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak）has three distinctive features: non-circular cross-section, fully superconducting magnets…
Fusion Ignition Breakthrough: Energy Researchers Report Tokamak Experiments That Exceed Mysterious ‘Plasma Density Limit’
In a potential new milestone for fusion energy research, researchers in China report achieving a state once only…
China’s ‘artificial sun’ experiment finds way to break fusion plasma density limit
HEFEI — Researchers have identified a method to surpass the plasma density limit in experiments with the Experimental…
How W7-X achieves steady plasma
The Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) is the largest and most advanced stellarator in the world, and on its tenth…
World’s largest fusion device solves key plasma heat loss challenge
For decades, physicists have been puzzled by a phenomenon inside fusion reactors that defies conventional theory: heat escaping…
Japan fusion breakthrough may triple plasma measurement precision
Researchers from the National Institute of Fusion Science in Japan, developing the Large Helical Device (LHD) for nuclear…