The Cool Down on MSN1h
Scientists achieve major milestone in quest for nuclear fusion reactor: 'Holy grail of clean energy'
"Constructing the first quadrant is a big achievement." Scientists achieve major milestone in quest for nuclear fusion ...
Igniting Fusion Energy’s Future: The Surprising Power of Boron
Tungsten, the preferred material for tokamak fusion reactors, poses challenges due to sputtering that cools plasma, making ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists12h
Introduction—Fusion, forever the energy of tomorrow?
Will fusion as an energy source finally become an everyday, commercial reality in the next decade or so—or not come to ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists14h
After ITER: What China and others are doing in fusion. Interview with MIT’s Dennis Whyte
The former dean of MIT's plasma fusion dept—which is intimately tied to the privately funded Commonwealth Fusion Systems, ...
The Cool Down on MSN9d
Scientists uncover 'saltshaker' breakthrough in quest for limitless energy — here's how it could transform the future
This could be a huge deal for fusion experiments around the globe, which could lead to what has been called the "holy grail" ...
Interesting Engineering7d
US completes first key magnet for apple-shaped nuclear fusion reactor
The NSTX-U is the primary nuclear fusion reactor experiment which is ongoing at the US Department of Energy's PPPL.
world-nuclear-news14d
Thales gyrotron sets new record in plasma heating
Developed in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics specifically for the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator, ...
Physics World22d
Negative triangularity tokamaks: a power plant plasma solution from the core to the edge?
for which he was awarded the European Plasma Physics PhD Award. In 2019, he and Jason Parisi published the popular science book, The Future of Fusion Energy. Currently, Justin is the principal ...
IFLScience13h
We’ve Only Been To Uranus Once And The Freak Timing May Have Misled Us For Years
By sheer chance we may have visited the seventh planet when things weren’t normal and have misunderstood it ever since.
21 Holy Grail Materials Could Unleash Fusion Once and for All
One of the hardest engineering challenges in the world of fusion energy is developing materials that can withstand the ...
Heavy-ion run at the LHC begins
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is like an immensely powerful kitchen, designed to cook up some of the rarest and hottest ...