Japan-based Helical Fusion Company has announced the closure of its Series A funding round. The money raised will help the ...

For decades, scientists have looked to the Sun as the ultimate model of power,an enormous fusion reactor that has sustained ...

Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream ...

Whereas magnetic confinement fusion does effectively what it says on the tin, magnetic target fusion is pretty much a hybrid of magnetic confinement fusion and the laser-based intertial ...

A new magnetic confinement approach using an improved field-reversed configuration (FRC) enables plasma to generate its own magnetic field, potentially delivering 100 times more fusion power than ...

With their innovative design, tokamak reactors are leading the charge in fusion research, aiming to unlock the potential of nuclear fusion for global energy needs.

In 1951, American Lyman Spitzer conceived the stellarator, another magnetic confinement device with a more complex magnetic topography, reflected by its asymmetrical design, like a twisted rubber ...

The global fusion energy market, driven by international collaborations and private ventures, is advancing rapidly with a focus on magnetic and inertial confinement approaches. Key projects like ITER ...

According to this dismal law (dismal for fusion, that is), magnetic confinement should get progressively worse with increasing plasma temperature, rather than getting better as in classical diffusion.

More information: A. Dal Molin et al, Measurement of the Gamma-Ray-to-Neutron Branching Ratio for the Deuterium-Tritium Reaction in Magnetic Confinement Fusion Plasmas, Physical Review Letters (2024).

“Europe has an incredible strength in magnetic confinement fusion, with around twice the number of researchers and large-scale [fusion] devices than the US,” said Sciortino.

The global fusion energy market, driven by international collaborations and private ventures, is advancing rapidly with a focus on magnetic and inertial confinement approaches. Key projects like ...