Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental physical process in plasmas, through which the magnetic energy is converted into ...

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) will be relying on tungsten as its plasma-facing material, but a ...

The former dean of MIT's plasma fusion dept—which is intimately tied to the privately funded Commonwealth Fusion Systems, ...

The FAST (Fusion by Advanced Superconducting Tokamak) project has been launched in Japan with the aim of achieving ...

Quantum Kinetics Corporation (QKC) claimed that it successfully triggered plasma fusion temperatures of 392 million degrees ...

"Constructing the first quadrant is a big achievement." Scientists achieve major milestone in quest for nuclear fusion ...

Will fusion as an energy source finally become an everyday, commercial reality in the next decade or so—or not come to ...

Wellington recorded the hottest temperatures in New Zealand, if not the entire solar system, this month.Nuclear fusion energy ...

Additionally, because black holes are "messy eaters," some of the material in accretion disks is channeled toward the poles ...

Fusion energy is being created all the time by the sun and stars ... Shumlak was particularly interested in the physics of ...

Initial designs are for the tokamak to have an aspect ratio of 2.0, plasma major radius of 4.25 meters and a magnetic field of 4.25 Tesla, as well as a liquid lithium tritium breeding blanket. Tokamak ...

Instead of relying on plasma currents like tokamaks, stellarators confine the plasma by specially shaped 3D magnetic fields.