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…
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…
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…
Meta makes nuclear reactor history with 6.6 GW energy deal to power AI
Meta has officially become one of the largest corporate purchasers of nuclear energy in American history. The tech…
Google, Westinghouse to cut US nuclear reactor construction cost, time
Westinghouse has officially partnered with Google Cloud to deploy a custom artificial intelligence platform designed to optimize and…
Cameco says White House won’t meddle in its core business under U.S. reactor deal
The chief executive of Saskatchewan-based Cameco Corp. wants to make clear that the U.S. government is not getting…
US firms to trial nuclear reactor aboard satellite for space travel
Texas-based Space Ocean Corporation has entered into an agreement with Space Nuclear Power Corporation to test the latter’s…
Smartphones and computers could get a big boost in performance, thanks to an accidental discovery
An illustrative image showing a chip with a high clock speed (Image source: AI-generated image) While researching a…
Why on Earth would NASA build a nuclear reactor on the Moon?
“Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon” is not a headline I imagined reading before last week.…