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Practical nuclear fusion milestone achieved, higher plasma pressure feat recorded

A major achievement at the UK’s MAST Upgrade fusion facility could help solve one ...
Inverse

Physicists achieve a "holy grail" of nuclear fusion — with a long road ahead

Last week, the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory made nuclear fusion history. At 1 a.m. Pacific on December 5, scientists fired the world’s most energetic lasers to ...
TechCrunch

Laser-initiated fusion leads the way to safe, affordable clean energy

The quest to make fusion power a reality recently took a massive step forward. The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced the results of an experiment ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Nuclear Fusion Energy

Nuclear fusion is the process that powers the sun and other stars through the combination of two hydrogen atoms into one helium atom. In that process, part of the mass of the hydrogen is converted to ...
Politico

‘It’s one of the biggest results of science in the past 20-30 years’

The U.S. is on the cusp of announcing a scientific breakthrough that has eluded researchers worldwide for decades — one that could, decades from now, turn nuclear fusion into a practical source of ...
Power Engineering

Researchers creating hydrogen isotopes for fuel in nuclear fusion process

A team at the Colorado School of Mines is working to create hydrogen membranes for use in nuclear fusion power plants. The project, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects ...
CNBC

Here's how fusion energy could power your home or an AI data center

Fusion energy is the process of forcing two hydrogen atoms to combine and form one helium atom, which releases huge amounts of energy. Type One Energy, a startup in Tennessee, claims to have proven ...