In the heart of Provence, some of the brightest scientific minds on the planet are setting the stage for what is being called the world’s largest and most ambitious science experiment. "We are ...

The ITER (International Tokomak) fusion reactor currently being built in France will not achieve first operation until 2034 – almost a decade later than previously planned and some 50 years after the ...

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor fusion project's council has put back for a year an announcement on its updated timeline for the project - and is proposing other changes including ...

Westinghouse Electric Co. and officials with the ITER project in France signed a contract for $180 million for the assembly of the vacuum vessel for the fusion reactor. This is a key milestone in the ...

Ever since nuclear fusion was first discovered in the 1930s, scientists have imagined ways to harness its energy. The earliest designs for nuclear fusion reactors began in earnest in the 1950s, with ...

Inside a French fusion experiment, a metal more associated with lightbulb filaments than star power just did something extraordinary. Tungsten, long considered too brittle and temperamental for the ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A much-delayed nuclear fusion project involving more than 30 countries is ready to assemble the world's most powerful magnet - a key part of efforts to generate clean energy by ...

ITER is a large-scale scientific experiment that aims to demonstrate that it is possible to produce commercial energy from fusion. If you haven’t yet heard about the organization, that will likely ...

Ravinder Bhatia, a leader and engineer with three decades of experience managing collaborative science initiatives, is the new head of ITER projects at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma ...

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: Orano, through its engineering subsidiary Orano Projets, has been awarded a contract by ITER for its expertise in the fields of dependability analysis and ...