In December, Department of Energy officials announced that experiments at the National Ignition Facility at the LLNL achieved 'ignition,' where the fusion energy generated exceeded the laser energy ...

If all goes to plan, Virginia will be the site of the world’s first grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant, able to harness this futuristic clean power and generate electricity from it by the early ...

The occurs when two light nuclei merge to form a single heavier nucleus. Because the total mass of that single nucleus is less than the mass of the two original nuclei, the leftover mass is energy ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems LLC is looking to replace the boilers in fossil fuel power plants with the heat of the sun. The US company is so confident in its fusion technology that it’s evaluating old ...

Tech giant Google is investing money into a futuristic nuclear fusion plant that hasn’t been built yet but someday will replicate the energy of the stars. It’s a sign of how hungry big tech companies ...

China has just placed a major new national bet on commercializing fusion energy, and now is the time for the U.S. to respond. Chinese state and industrial leaders are positioning the country to lead ...

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California researchers have successfully completed a nuclear fusion reaction that achieved “ignition”—or yielded more energy than was put into it—for only the second time in history, report Tom Wilson ...

American scientists have announced what they have called a major breakthrough in a long-elusive goal of creating energy from nuclear fusion. The U.S. Department of Energy said on Dec. 13, 2022, that ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The path to fusion power is getting a $150 million boost thanks to a ...

A startup energy company, called Marathon Fusion, may soon be living out the dream of alchemists from the Middle Ages. In a recently released paper posted to the arXiv preprint server, the company ...