From assembly to first plasma in just two years is remarkably fast, but Song Yuntao—the project’s chief engineer from the ...

The Holy Grail of energy production, nuclear fusion, is making rapid advances and one experimental reactor in the United ...

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That was the thought racing through physicist Francis Perrin’s mind in May 1972. He was examining a dark piece of uranium ore ...

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China completes construction fusion reactor Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak (BEST) in Hefei, which is ...

China is working at blazing speeds to ensure that its BEST fusion reactor is ready to deliver energy before 2027.

It seems too good to be true, but UK-based Pulsar Fusion has revealed its new Sunbird self-contained nuclear rocket tug that ...

Unlike conventional nuclear fission, which splits atoms, fusion combines them, releasing immense energy without carbon ...

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Unlike nuclear fission, which splits atoms and produces radioactive ... the superhot gas in which fusion reactions take place ...