Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have set a new fusion record on the WEST tokamak, sustaining plasma at roughly 50 million degrees Celsius for six ...

Harnessing the power of the sun holds the promise of providing future societies with energy abundance. To make this a reality, fusion researchers need to address many technological challenges. For ...

The discussion about nuclear fusion has long involved its potential to create limitless amounts of energy. Thea Energy is one of several companies working to turn that potential into reality.

Tammy Ma, director the Livermore Institute for Fusion Technology, can explain why her work with nuclear fusion is a step toward abundant clean energy.

Has the dawn of the nuclear fusion age arrived? One developer of the powerful energy-generating tech says it will be ...

The United States is set to accelerate the design of stellarator devices for fusion ...

Expanding the nation's energy portfolio by making fusion a viable source of electricity is challenging and involves designing ...

To help make commercial fusion energy a reality, PPPL leads the StellFoundry project, which uses AI to sift through enormous amounts of data to determine which fusion system configurations are best.

Because of this, researchers and governments are investing time and effort in streamlining the nuclear fusion energy ...

On Jan. 5, the University released its annual Report of the Treasurer. Following a tumultuous year for higher education across the country, the report emphasizes the University’s lab partnerships with ...

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has launched a new computing platform that pairs artificial intelligence (AI) with high performance computing with the ...

In inertial confinement fusion, a capsule of fuel begins at temperatures near zero and pressures close to vacuum. When lasers compress that fuel to trigger fusion, the material heats up to millions of ...