fusion energy, Tag

Nuclear energy is obtained by the huge amount of energy that is released by atoms in the processes of fusion or fission. Fusion is when two lightweight atoms (like hydrogen) are joined to form a larger atom. On the other...

A recent test by researchers at the Joint European Torus (JET) has advanced the possibilities for fusion energy. In their latest experiment, the scientists set a new record for the amount of energy released in a sustained...

Commercially viable fusion energy may soon be a reality, following the successful trial of a new superconducting magnetic field. On September 5, scientists at MIT tested a large high-temperature electromagnet for the first...

Dramatic advances in lasers could get us closer to fusion energy. An international team of 11 scientists is pursuing what was once thought to be impossible, according to the University of New South Wales (UNSW): fusion power...

Fusion powers the sun, and if we could harness it here on Earth, we could obtain unlimited clean energy. Scientists have been working on that goal for years, and now researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Massachusetts...

Fusion powers the sun, and if we could harness it here on Earth, we could obtain unlimited clean energy. Scientists have been working on that aim for years, and now researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Massachusetts...

Scientists have long sought to replicate with fusion reactors the sun's ability to produce energy through nuclear fusion. But it's taking too long for Tokamak Energy, a UK-based company that wants to speed up the progress...

Scientists in Germany fired up a doughnut-shaped reactor to heat hydrogen to the point of becoming plasma, which lasted for just a split second. The successful “Wendelstein 7-X” stellarator experiment brings us a huge...

Scientists are rejoicing after the inaugural test run of the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) fusion reactor last week. Inside the massive, uniquely-shaped stellarator one milligram of helium gas was heated to 100 million degrees Celsius,...

Scientists are rejoicing after the inaugural test run of the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) fusion reactor last week. Inside the massive, uniquely-shaped stellarator one milligram of helium gas was heated to 100 million degrees Celsius,...

A newly-published study describes how for the first time, scientists have been able to generate more energy through an experiment than was used to initiate nuclear fusion...

A newly-published study describes how for the first time, scientists have been able to generate more energy through an experiment than was used to initiate nuclear fusion...

Scientists in California fired up 192 laser beams simultaneously onto a single, tiny, two-millimeter target, producing and unbelievable 500 trillion watts of energy...

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory just fired up the world’s largest laser to shoot a record-breaking 2.03 megajoule beam of light at a tiny frozen fuel pellet....