This will be the first fusion reactor, public or private, designed to operate at near-commercial scale, with an eventual output of about 140 megawatts (MW). The second will be the non-opening of ...

The DV Efremov Institute of Electrophysical Apparatus (NIIEFA Nauchno Issledovatelskii Institut Elektrofizicheskoi Apparaturi ...

Japan has taken a major step toward revolutionizing energy production with the launch of the JT-60SA reactor, the world’s largest experimental nuclear fusion reactor. This project represents a ...

The science news ecosystem repeats unfounded claims about nuclear fusion. OpenStar’s reactor has an unusual design, but it’s just as unproven as all the others. Their reactor has a central ...

More than 130 experimental nuclear fusion reactors, both public and private ... was relocated to the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) at the end of 2020. The machine previously belonged to ...

Scientists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, a national lab run by the U.S. Department of Energy, recently achieved a major milestone in the development of a nuclear fusion reactor ...

In the competitive race to crack the fusion code, an unexpected participant has gained attention—not a billionaire with a cutting-edge lab, but a university student who built a reactor in his ...

The facility is a donut-shaped tokamak, a type of fusion reactor that traps a cloud of ultra-hot plasma inside a strong magnetic field. During its record-breaking run, the JET facility used just 0 ...

One of the hardest engineering challenges in the world of fusion energy is developing materials that can withstand the inferno of a reactor’s plasma. The International Thermonuclear Experimental ...

Yet to replicate the nuclear fusion process that powers the very stars ... Add to this the massively disrupted supply chains in 2020 and beyond due to the pandemic, and it would have been more ...

Japan’s JT-60SA fusion reactor project announced first plasma ... with superconducting coils was supposed to last from 2013 to 2020, with first plasma that same year. During commissioning ...

The custom cathodes designed by KULR will be implemented in a laser-based nuclear fusion system for small modular reactors, an emerging technology with the potential to deliver affordable ...