The Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak (BEST) nuclear fusion reactor being built in Heifei, China, is in the final phase of its assembly and on track for completion by 2027.

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 ...

Workers at General Fusion assemble LM26, the company’s latest fusion test reactor. The company's CEO confirmed it has cut more than a quarter of its workforce, and slowed the pace of its fusion ...

This innovation promises faster design and improved stability for future nuclear fusion reactors. Researchers in South Korea have achieved a fifteen-fold increase in the speed of predicting high ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A video game-inspired algorithm enables rapid detection of high-energy particle collisions in virtual fusion reactors, operating up to 15 times faster than ...

The company announced yesterday that it had created plasma inside its prototype reactor – a major milestone in proving its technology. This proves General Fusion's Lawson Machine 26 (LM26 ...

a superheated fourth state of matter required for fusion, inside a prototype reactor. The milestone marks the beginning of a 93-week quest to prove that the outfit’s steampunk approach to fusion ...

Today’s nuclear fission reactors create radioactive waste, whereas nuclear fusion releases vast amounts of energy, with zero carbon emissions and only minimal radiation. Tokamaks and ...

Building a working nuclear fusion reactor has proven to be a daunting challenge even for multiple wealthy nations, as we've seen with the much-delayed ITER project. However, a private start-up ...

A historic day for Canada and the world has been marked by a feat that brought humanity to the brink of unlocking the future of energy when a team of scientists set the fusion reactor alight to ...

EPFL researchers are testing new materials for fusion reactors. Using computational screening, they found potential tungsten alternatives that could better withstand fusion’s challenges, potentially ...