The United States is preparing to subject fusion reactor materials to a brutal new benchmark: a focused 10 megawatt heat ...

The high-heat flux facility will evaluate how materials react under extreme conditions in a fusion device.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Type One Energy and the University of Tennessee in Knoxville are partnering to establish a world-class facility that will drive American innovation and move ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UBC boosts fusion reactions with electrochemical loading in a benchtop reactor, opening new paths for fusion research. (CREDIT: ...

But on January 1, researchers working on China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) — often dubbed the ...

Fusion energy has the potential to be an effective clean energy source, as its reactions generate incredibly large amounts of energy. Fusion reactors aim to reproduce on Earth what happens in the core ...

Left: geometry of the SPARC tokamak showing the pump volume and the “louver” actuator that restricts gas flow between the plasma and pumping chambers. Right: neutral gas pressure increases strongly ...

Researchers at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory found a way to make plasma heating more efficient for fusion. By slightly angling a Faraday screen near the plasma antenna, they stopped unwanted ...

Fusion scientists and AI leaders warn that a growing STEM skills gap could undermine the future energy and technology workforce, calling for urgent education and training reforms.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Llewellyn King has been a player in the energy space since 1970. Jun 30, 2025, 07:40pm EDT Inside Commonwealth Fusion Systems' ...

It’s fair to say that Bob Rosner, the former chair of the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board, is something of a skeptic when it comes to the more optimistic claims about fusion becoming a ...

When the US Department of Energy announced that it would stop funding the tokamak at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Dennis Whyte considered giving up on fusion research. But as this excerpt ...