Called the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak (SMART), this reactor is part of the University of Seville’s effort to not only make fusion energy possible, but also economically competitive for grid ...

Fusion-fission hybrid reactors represent an innovative approach to energy generation, combining the benefits of both fusion and fission processes. These reactors aim to enhance energy production ...

In the competitive race to crack the fusion code, an unexpected participant has gained attention—not a billionaire with a cutting-edge lab, but a university student who built a reactor in his ...

fusion reactor has succeeded in maintaining a plasma with a temperature of over 100 million degrees Celsius for just under 18 minutes. Plasma operation was maintained for 1,066 seconds ...

The startup also flipped the switch last month on its latest prototype, Polaris, which it anticipates will be the first fusion reactor to generate electricity. Polaris, Helion’s seventh ...

Fusion on the other hand does not create any long-lived radioactive nuclear waste. A fusion reactor produces helium, which is an inert gas. It also produces and consumes tritium within the plant in a ...

TAE Technologies’ approach is to use boron-11 and hydrogen instead of deuterium-tritium (two isotopes of hydrogen), which is the more common fuel for current fusion reactors, because it is the ...

The most common design for fusion reactors — the tokamak — works by superheating plasma (one of the four states of matter, consisting of positive ions and negatively charged free electrons ...

Meet the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak, or EAST. EAST is a fusion reactor based in Hefei, China. And it can now reach temperatures more than six times as hot as the sun.

SAN FRANCISCO--A start-up that a Nobel laureate co-founded plans to commercialize a nuclear fusion reactor using laser technology by around 2030. Shuji Nakamura, co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel ...