Billions of dollars in venture capital and state investments have recently been poured into efforts to finally make nuclear ...

The new era of nuclear power generation greater than the force of the Sun has arrived and is ready for deployment. For the first-time ever, a sustained synthetic quasar has been born on Earth to ...

A powerful, open-source software package named OpenMC has emerged as a cornerstone in the global effort to develop the next generation of nuclear energy. Recently honored with an R&D 100 Award, the ...

The official verdict warns a nuclear incident at the STEP fusion project in Nottinghamshire could lead to “contamination of ...

Aiden MacMillan, a 12-year-old from Texas, may have done what many scientists are still striving to achieve. He claims to have generated nuclear fusion outside the famed tokamaks, the massive reactors ...

Fusion power has always been a bit of a contradiction. The fusion part is actually kind of easy — an undergrad recently built a simple fusion device in his bedroom, for example — but getting ...

The promise of nuclear fusion feels simple. Just as stars fuse hydrogen into heavier elements to produce energy, a fusion reactor generates massive amounts of energy by combining lightweight particles ...

Commercial shipping has a massive 2050 problem. Responsible for 3 percent of global greenhouse ...

China's EAST nuclear fusion reactor has successfully kept plasma stable at extreme densities, passing a major fusion milestone and potentially bringing humanity closer to wielding near-limitless clean ...

Nuclear fusion may be closer to commercialization than previously thought, with private firms targeting operational reactors in the early 2030s. Major technical and economic hurdles remain, including ...

“We got neutrons, yeah!” The shout came after years of after-school effort inside a Dallas home, where a seventh grader had been quietly assembling a machine most people only encounter in advanced ...