Fusion Doesn’t Need Magnets or Beams Anymore

Zap Energy’s three-meter reactor uses a lead-lithium liquid wall, cutting hardware needs and bringing cleaner, modular power ...

Pacific Fusion finds a cheaper way to make its fusion reactor work

The fusion power startup recently completed some experiments at Sandia National Laboratory's Z Machine and shared the results ...
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Pacific Fusion cracks cheaper method to finally power its fusion reactor

Pacific Fusion says it has finally found a way to make its ambitious fusion reactor design affordable enough to build at ...

After 70 years of false starts, fusion energy is finally gaining momentum

The machines at their center, called tokamaks, have evolved from experimental curiosities into instruments capable of sustaining confined plasma – matter so hot it mimics the ...

Contributor: The U.S. needs a national fusion strategy before our lead in energy slips away

We are in the middle of a long-term geopolitical race as China, Europe and the U.K. continue pouring billions into fusion ...
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This nuclear fusion reactor could be producing clean energy as soon as 2030

As countries around the world race to rid themselves of fossil fuels, nuclear fusion presents the ultimate opportunity in its promise of an effectively limitless supply of clean energy. While it's ...

Avalanche thinks the fusion power industry should think smaller

Avalanche has raised $29 million in fresh funding to pursue its unique approach to fusion power, which can currently fit on a ...
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Chinese scientists make groundbreaking discovery in pursuit of limitless energy: 'A practical and scalable pathway'

This experiment is the first confirmation of an abstract framework. Chinese scientists make groundbreaking discovery in ...
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Nuclear fusion reactors get repair boost with first tested 'plug-and-socket' magnets

Engineers at the UK’s STEP (Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production) program have successfully tested ...

From the Manhattan Project to Fusion: The History of DOE’s National Labs

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) maintains one of the richest and most diverse histories in the federal government. Although the department itself has only existed since 1977, its lineage traces ...
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The Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Scientists Once Said Was Impossible

What if the key to solving the world’s energy crisis was hidden in a process so ambitious, so technically demanding, that even experts once dismissed it as science fiction? For decades, nuclear fusion ...
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Can this Mass. startup solve the riddle of fusion power?

Inside a vast, hangar-like building in Devens, a trio of employees are working to test and assemble the pieces of what is likely one of the most advanced machines being built on Earth. One part of a ...