Lithium is considered a key ingredient in the future commercial fusion power plants known as tokamaks, and there are several ...

The dream of the ancient alchemists may come true as Marathon Fusion announces that its tokamak fusion reactor technology can ...

The alchemist's dream is to make gold from common metals, but can this be done? The physics needed to explain how to change ...

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

What could be called a major breakthrough, researchers have developed a groundbreaking new method for measuring power in nuclear fusion reactors. They have discovered that gamma rays, produced ...

Company unveils revolutionary reactor design for nuclear fusion power plant: 'Cylinders firing all day long to produce steady energy output' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Fusion reactors are surprisingly easy to make, assuming you don’t mind putting far more energy in than you’d ever receive in return. We’ve featured more than one Farnsworth fusor over the years.

This is far faster than the world's largest fusion power project, known as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), which was conceived in 1985 but not launched until 2007; and ...

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Fusion is the opposite of fission, the reaction that powers nuclear power reactors today. There, the nucleus of a heavy element like uranium splits into lighter elements and releases energy.

In 2015 the fusion reactor at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory got a spherical upgrade for an energy-efficiency boost. Some physicists think this sort of design might be the future of the ...

Now, its makers say, it’s the most cutting-edge tokamak design in the running for the first feasible fusion power plant idea. That said, planning and building it is still expected to cost more ...