Could fusion energy save Europe from the energy crisis?
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US fusion breakthrough cracks decades-old heat load mystery in tokamaks
New research at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has indicated that the rotation of the plasma core…
Scientists make breakthrough with magnets in pursuit of limitless energy source
A prototype nuclear fusion power plant in the United Kingdom isn’t expected to be completed until 2040, but…
Startup Successfully Ignites World’s First Fusion Rocket
With current chemical propulsion technology, it takes a spacecraft up to 10 months to reach Mars. Reducing that…
AI Boom Siphons Billions From Crucial Energy Innovation Funding
AI is a double-edged sword for the energy sector. The rapid integration of large language models into everything…
Half-ton magnet aces world-first 1.8 million°F fusion plasma confinement
A 0.5-tonne superconducting magnet recently hovered silently inside a 5-meter-wide vacuum chamber, which marked a major milestone for…
Giant X-Rays Deliver the Sharpest View Yet of Fusion Plasma Gone Haywire
Giant X-ray lasers do a lot for physics. These powerful instruments can probe the interiors of tiny molecules,…
US team’s fusion plasma heat control method to protect tokamak walls
Researchers at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have identified a new method to tame the destructive energy bursts…
Billion-times more efficient fusion unlocked with low-frequency laser
A team of researchers has identified a mechanism that could lower the extreme temperature requirements for controlled nuclear…
China’s “Artificial Sun” Just Smashed a Key Fusion Barrier and Physics May Never Be the Same
As the world’s first superconducting tokamak, EAST（Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak）has three distinctive features: non-circular cross-section, fully superconducting magnets…
China’s ‘artificial sun’ experiment finds way to break fusion plasma density limit
HEFEI — Researchers have identified a method to surpass the plasma density limit in experiments with the Experimental…
Why Nuclear Fusion Will Not Solve the AI Power Problem
With the supposed need for vast new electricity generation to fuel the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, AI companies are…