France’s WEST tokamak held a fusion plasma at roughly 50 million degrees Celsius for 1,337 seconds, more than 22 minutes, ...

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

ITER’s new Magnet Cold Test Facility has successfully reached 4 Kelvin, marking a crucial step in testing superconducting coils.

Inside a doughnut-shaped reactor in southern France, a cloud of electrically charged gas recently burned at tens of millions of degrees for six straight minutes, setting a new record for sustained ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Last August U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, who at the time was also the acting administrator of NASA, ...

State leaders, scientists and nuclear fusion industry members gathered at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery on May 5 to discuss how Wisconsin could position itself as a national hub for nuclear ...

Researchers are now deploying machine learning algorithms directly into the control systems of tokamak reactors to prevent sudden plasma collapses. These collapses, known as tearing modes, reconfigure ...

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The world’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), transits the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, March 22, 2026. Gerald R. Ford is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of ...

Plans for a Bill Gates-backed and Oak Ridge-based nuclear reactor will be used to build what supporters hope is the first privately led fusion plant in the United Kingdom. Knoxville company Type One ...