The clean energy source we’ve been pursuing for decades is advancing with 200,000 “plasma shots” at General Atomics in San ...

Now, a new and compact fusion reactor in Spain—the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak, or SMART—is further experimenting with ...

Scientists have succeeded in maintaining an "artificial sun" here on Earth for a whopping 17 minutes and 46 seconds.

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) was developed by the ... goal is to build a commercially viable nuclear fusion reactor," he added. Gong explained that three conditions ...

Scientists in China on a quest to build a nuclear fusion reactor capable of producing ... accomplished at the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) facility at the Institute of ...

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) nuclear fusion reactor maintained a steady, highly confined loop of plasma — the high-energy fourth state of matter — for 1,066 seconds ...

is set to become the world's largest magnetic confinement plasma physics experiment and the largest experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor upon completion. In recent years, EAST has ...

Hot stuff The first plasma at the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak. (Courtesy: University of Seville ... attractive fusion performance and power handling for future compact fusion reactors. We have exciting ...

Researchers have taken a crucial step forward in the quest for clean, limitless energy. A team at General Atomics, a research facility operated for the U.S. Department of Energy, has reported a ...

Scientists in China have made a new system for fueling the tokamak device ... making it a crucial technology for the future of fusion reactors. The Chinese institute claimed that the method ...

Since initiating the program’s design phase two years ago, the DARPA-NASA management team has encountered the challenges inherent in sending a nuclear reactor into space for the first time in ...