Westinghouse will be responsible for completing the vacuum vessel at the ITER nuclear fusion facility in France.

In the southeast of France, nestled among industrial buildings, engineers are working on one of the most ambitious projects ...

Japan has taken a major step toward revolutionizing energy production with the launch of the JT-60SA reactor, the world’s ...

An MIT- and startup-designed fusion reactor could be testing in four years and online within 10. The scientists say this ambitious timeline is a result of careful, transparent planning—not ...

The world’s largest and most powerful superconducting electromagnet is ready to become the pulsing “heart” inside of a massive tokamak nuclear fusion reactor.Developed over 40 years in ...

A viable nuclear fusion reactor — one that spits out more energy than it consumes — could be here as soon as 2025. That's the takeaway of seven new studies, published Sept. 29 in the Journal ...

Physicists' favorite type of fusion reactor uses plasma. These machines heat up a gas until it's so hot and its atoms are moving so fast that the particles slam together and combine to release an ...

General Fusion's LM26 reactor prototype has been 16 months in the making. General Fusion. 2 / 2. Lawson Machine 26 aka LM26 being assembled – here, ...

Nuclear fusion produces energy in the same way as the sun and stars, combining lightweight atomic nuclei by using high pressures and temperatures of around 150 million degrees Celsius (270 million ...

A math student has achieved the unthinkable. In just four weeks, Hudhayfa Nazoordeen, a math student at the University of Waterloo, has created a small homemade fusion reactor using parts he ...