A small start-up in New Zealand claims it has created plasma, the first step towards nuclear fusion, in under two years and ...

UK-based start-up Core Power and US-based Westinghouse Electric Company have formalised a cooperative agreement for the ...

Many have suggested that harnessing nuclear fusion could provide ... Figure 1: The most common hybrid design consists of a fusion reactor core surrounded by a blanket of fissile material such ...

By program's end, design proposals for everything from nuclear-powered rockets, submarines, missiles, hydrofoils, and even ...

A recent spate of nuclear fusion announcements have covered an emerging fusion reactor in New Zealand. The company behind ...

Tests are underway using the MIR.M1 research reactor at Russia’s Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (NIIAR – Nauchno ...

In a commercial warehouse overlooking the ocean in New Zealand’s capital Wellington, a startup is trying to recreate the ...

Traditional nuclear reactors are expensive and can take decades to build. Compact modular alternatives are cheaper, and can ...

A Seattle-based company has unveiled its new nuclear fusion prototype with the ... and its technology to try to mitigate ...

The milestone came in the form of the first quadrant of a super-powerful magnet for the core of the Princeton Lab's National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade (NSTX-U) nuclear fusion reactor.

Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have conducted the first HALEU criticality experiment in over two decades.