The milestone was reached on February 12 at the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) WEST Tokamak reactor. Achieving the dream of commercial fusion power is the ...

A world record for nuclear fusion has been smashed after an ‘artificial sun’ reactor was able to maintain ... which is currently used to power the planet alongside fossil fuels and renewable ...

On January 20, Chinese scientists reported that they were able to maintain a plasma at a temperature of 100 million degrees C for about 1,066 seconds in a nuclear fusion reactor called the ...

There's a new sun rising in China. Well, sort of. China's nuclear fusion reactor, called the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) officially but an "artificial sun" by many, has just ...

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6. ITER will also examine the availability and integration of technologies needed for a fusion reactor and the validity of tritium breeding module concepts that would lead in a future reactor to ...

A team of scientists in France have smashed the world record for maintaining a plasma reaction - paving the way for the future of fusion power. The WEST machine, run by the Commissariat à l ...

This hot, electrically charged gas easily becomes unstable, which can lead to lost energy and limit the efficiency of a possible future nuclear fusion reactor. The WEST tokamak machine in southern ...

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France, home to both WEST and ITER, is well-placed to house the first prototype nuclear fusion reactor. Nuclear fusion is a source of energy that exploits nuclear reactions, with many possible ...