In a spacious room with towering ceilings, a gleaming device resembling a metal barrel the size of an SUV lies on its side, ready to perform some science. Known as the Facility for Laboratory ...

In inertial confinement fusion, a capsule of fuel begins at temperatures near zero and pressures close to vacuum. When lasers compress that fuel to trigger fusion, the material heats up to millions of ...

In the quest for sustainable and limitless energy, fusion research has made significant strides, with the recent formation of stable plasma rings in laboratory settings marking a pivotal breakthrough.

Measuring conditions in volatile clouds of superheated gases known as plasmas is central to pursuing greater scientific ...

The Large Helical Device (LHD) and the heavy ion beam probe (HIBP) system. The inset on the left shows an enlarged view of the section from the negative ion source to the injection side of the tandem ...

Realization of digital-twin control by connecting Large Helical Device (LHD) (Toki, Gifu) located at NIFS and the Plasma Simulator supercomputer (Rokkasho, Aomori), jointly procured by NIFS and QST, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Experiments inside a fusion reactor in China have demonstrated a new way to circumvent one of the caps on the density of the ...

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

The IAEA’s new https://www.iaea.org/services/coordinated-research-activities CRP will create an international network of researchers, laboratories and industry partners.  It will strengthen ...

Expanding the nation's energy portfolio by making fusion a viable source of electricity is challenging and involves designing ...