German start-up Proxima Fusion has secured €400mn in backing from its home state of Bavaria to help build a €2bn test ...

The stakes of the “race to fusion” are dramatic. Commercial fusion has the potential to deliver nearly unlimited energy by ...

The technology has proven difficult to achieve. Researchers achieve major breakthrough in effort to build limitless energy device: 'This milestone marks a key step' first appeared on The Cool Down.

A persistent asymmetry in fusion exhaust has challenged researchers for years. New simulations show that plasma core rotation, working together with cross-field drifts, determines where particles land ...

Proxima Fusion, a Munich-based nuclear energy startup, has outlined plans to raise about €2 billion to build a major fusion test facility in Germany that could be a milestone on the path to ...

Ion beams can now qualify nuclear reactor materials up to 1,000 times faster than ...

The race to recreate the sun’s power on Earth just hit a major milestone. Scientists operating a powerful fusion reactor, often nicknamed China’s “artificial sun,” set a world record that’s turning ...

A nuclear fusion startup has claimed a significant advance after testing an unconventional reactor design in New Zealand, reporting that it sustained plasma at roughly 300,000 degrees Celsius for 20 ...

China is racing forward in its effort to pave the way in fusion energy science, and state-sponsored media reported earlier this week that one of the country’s next-gen reactors is now under ...

A 13-foot robot nicknamed Godzilla is being engineered to assemble components inside ITER, the massive fusion reactor taking ...