The massive, donut-shaped machine, which is also the largest and most powerful tokamak experiment, made headlines when it achieved 69 megajoules (MJ) of energy during a six-second pulse during its ...

The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has partnered with a council and a private firm to work on designing future experimental fusion power plants. This collaboration includes the Science ...

A stellarator is still a donut shape, but extended and twisted, with different pros and cons.

At a Climate Forward live event, Bob Mumgaard, the chief executive of Commonwealth Fusion Systems, said his company might be near a breakthrough.

Scientists in the UK have forged 5.5 tonnes of a new kind of steel capable of withstanding the searing heat and intense neutron radiation of nuclear fusion, the same reaction that powers the Sun and ...

Two British public sector entities - the UK Atomic Energy Authority and the Science and Technology Facilities Council's Hartree Centre - have teamed up with US-headquartered technology firm IBM to ...

The UK government has pledged £506 million to support the development of nuclear fusion, aiming to build a prototype power plant by 2040. The investment will also support the repurposing of the UK's ...

The UK government announced plans to develop a National Policy Statement to unblock fusion energy projects, making the UK the first country in the world to develop fusion-specific planning rules. A ...

Zap Energy has advanced its Century fusion engineering test platform to operate for more than one hundred plasma shots at 0.2 ...

Type One Energy Group and the Tennessee Valley Authority made the announcement with state and local officials at the former ...