Researchers using China’s “artificial sun” fusion reactor have broken through a long-standing density barrier in fusion ...
A breakthrough experiment revealed how plasma turbulence spreads heat inside fusion reactors, solving a decades-old problem ...
China’s EAST reactor just broke a fundamental fusion limit—bringing the dream of ignition a big step closer. shutterstock.
China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak has pushed fusion research into a new regime by holding a high density ...
Chinese researchers at the EAST tokamak achieved a theoretically predicted regime with plasma densities above the previous ...
The fusion experiment uses high-temperature superconducting coils, according to the report. A major breakthrough, these coils ...
A new theory suggests fusion reactors could help scientists search for axions, mysterious particles that may explain dark ...
Physicists have spent decades chasing two grand technological dreams: harnessing fusion power and uncovering the nature of ...
SMART (Small Aspect Ratio Tokamak), the world's only fusion reactor with 'negative triangularity' constructed at the University of Sevilla in Spain, produced its first plasma. This is an important ...
The interiors of fusion reactors can get seriously chaotic. But for obvious reasons—like extreme temperatures and pressures—researchers aren’t typically able to peek directly inside a reactor. Some ...
The necessary technical advances are likely 15 to 20 years away, but research yields quick dividends.
Reactors designed to produce energy from the fusion of atoms could have an unexpected scientific side benefit.