Steve Zinkle will speak on “Materials for Nuclear Power Applications” at noon Tuesday, Jan. 13, to Friends of ORNL. His talk is open to the public.

This breakthrough in plasma stability brings the dream of endless energy even closer.

Recent nuclear fusion news from Canada and China has created a buzz. Meanwhile, new fusion startups have been popping up ...

All of these new developments don’t mean that the sun is ready to give up its fusion monopoly, as many significant ...

After many years of experiments, the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) is decommissioning the world's longest-running fusion tokamak. The project housing this machine is known as the Joint European ...

China’s flagship fusion experiment has pushed its superheated fuel into a regime that many physicists once dismissed as ...

The Thunderbird Reactor is small enough to fit on a lab bench, making it possible for universities and small labs to join the race. “We hope this work helps bring fusion science out of the giant ...

R esearchers have been able to experimentally enter, for the first time, a new nuclear fusion regime, with plasma density ...

Nuclear fusion promises a green and infinitely renewable supply of energy—if we can harness it. Fusion happens all the time inside the sun. But to recreate the process on Earth, we must control ...

But on January 1, researchers working on China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) — often dubbed the ...

In a remarkable advancement for nuclear fusion research, scientists have achieved a significant breakthrough in operating a fusion reactor beyond a plasma density limit that has long constrained ...

To bring costs down, the US would need to mass produce reactors and cultivate a supply chain. This is similar to the ...