Inside the target chamber at the National Ignition Facility, where researchers work on getting higher energy outputs from fusion power. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore ...

In a world-first, a self-driving robot has been used to carry out inspections inside a fusion energy facility. This autonomous maintenance will be critical if fusion power plants are to offer a viable ...

Scientists around the world are making progress as they try different techniques to bring commercial fusion energy to ...

As companies around the world work to commercialize fusion energy—clean power generated by combining two light atoms—not much ...

It's been almost 90 years since scientists made the first fusion reaction in a lab. But trying to create power from fusion presents a lot of problems. Two experts explain how long it could take until ...

The way scientists think about fusion changed forever in 2022, when what some called the experiment of the century demonstrated for the first time that fusion can be a viable source of clean energy.

US Department of Energy officials announced a history-making accomplishment in nuclear fusion Tuesday: For the first time, US scientists produced more energy from fusion than the laser energy they ...

Helical Fusion, Developing Fusion Energy For Future Clean Power, Will Exhibit At WAM Saudi 2026 In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. EINPresswire/ -- Helical Fusion Co., Ltd., a fusion energy company, will ...

Scientists have been trying to understand — and mimic — the way the sun produces energy for centuries. But recreating nuclear fusion on Earth presents an array of technical challenges. It involves ...

Fusion energy has moved from the realm of physics seminars into the center of global power politics. The United States still ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

While the world's only major fusion power effort -- ITER -- continues to trundle along, with an eventual first-fusion date of 2027 at a cost of more than $20 billion to taxpayers, there's a small lab ...