Designing predictable nuclear fusion reactors requires highly accurate computer models, yet existing simulations often ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A California-based firm is reportedly following a unique approach to achieve fusion energy. Based in Fremont, Pacific Fusion plans ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems has begun assembling its SPARC tokamak by placing the first of 18 toroidal-field magnets into the ...

Nuclear fusion comes in all shapes and sizes, and while donut-shaped tokamaks are the most common, many companies and universities are investigating other ways to bring star power in cheaper and more ...

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently accomplished a fusion power-related demonstration that could radically transform energy production in the future. The superconducting ...

Fusion scientists need a better understanding of physics to design future fusion reactors. By measuring magnetic fluctuations inside the high-temperature plasmas, scientists can validate the ...

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental phenomenon in magnetic confinement fusion as well as in space plasmas. The fingerprint of reconnection is the formation of intense current sheets and the release ...

Islands in the stream Artistic representation of resonant magnetic perturbations in a plasma. Palm tree is not to scale. (Courtesy: Kyle Palmer/PPPL Communications Department) By combining two ...

In 2015, a group of physicists at MIT did some calculations to rethink how we’re approaching the problem of fusion power. High-temperature, nonmetallic superconductors were finally commercially ...