The current AI race has reached a bottleneck that can be relieved only by new sources of electrical generation. Read more ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at new advances in fusion power, how the new budget bill undermines clean ...

Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream ...

Google has agreed to buy 200 MW of electricity from Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ ARC fusion plant, now under construction in ...

Helion, based in Everett, Washington, uses a type of reactor called a field-reversed configuration, where magnets surround a reaction chamber that looks like an hourglass with a bulge at the point ...

Many fusion projects today use a different machine called a tokamak, which relies on symmetrical, doughnut-shaped magnetic fields. This technology is at the heart of major international projects ...

In a facility outside Seattle, Helion Energy is working on a fusion reactor that defies convention. Unlike massive international projects like ITER, Helion's Trenta reactor fits in a single ...

That original breakthrough was the first time scientists had ever achieved “ignition”—a fusion reaction that generated more energy (3.15 megajoules) than the lasers put into the fuel (2.05 ...

Big problem for fusion energy solved Their method to speed up the design of 'magnetic bottles' offers an answer to a complex 70-year-old challenge Date: May 5, 2025 Source: University of Texas at ...

Abundant, low-cost, clean energy — the envisioned result if scientists and engineers can successfully produce a reliable method of generating and sustaining fusion energy — took one step closer to ...

This new method can help identify holes in the magnetic field where these electrons might leak. Burby’s co-authors from UT are postdoctoral researcher Max Ruth and graduate student Ivan Maldonado.

Government officials in Germany are supporting development of a nuclear fusion pilot plant. Officials have said they want nuclear fusion to be a priority of the country’s energy agenda, barely ...