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

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

A fusion reactor promises almost limitless energy—if we can build it. Physicist Tammy Ma explains how her team achieved fusion ignition, a crucial milestone powered by the world's largest laser.

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

Tokamak Energy, a UK-based nuclear fusion startup, has secured $125 million in funding to further develop its distinctive egg-shaped reactor design. The investment has come at a time when the ...

Chemistry Nuclear fusion fuel could be made greener with new chemical process Lithium-6 is a crucial material for nuclear fusion reactors, but isolating it is challenging – now researchers have ...

Commercial fusion power plants may be cheaper and easier to build thanks to a breakthrough by TAE Technologies that allows reactors to generate their own containment fields without the need for ...

ITER engineers expect their tokamak reactor to generate 500 megawatts (Mw) of fusion power using just 50 Mw of input heating–compared with a nuclear fission reactor ’s roughly 1,000 Mw of ...

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