Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion ...

The Sunbird concept is for the fusion-powered ‘tugs’ to be permanently based in space, able to dock with spacecraft and ...

Small modular reactors are compact nuclear reactors that can be combined ... is the main driver to deteriorate the performance of fusion power plants. This work presents an unprecedented ...

Lithium-6 is a crucial material for nuclear fusion reactors, but isolating it is challenging – now researchers have found a ...

Nuclear fusion reactors, if and when they become practical, will need a steady supply of fuel. The source of that fuel is the ...

Lithium-6 is essential for producing nuclear fusion fuel, but isolating it from the much more common isotope, lithium-7, usually requires liquid mercury, which is extremely toxic. Now, researchers ...

Jackson Oswalt, at the age of 12, achieved nuclear fusion in his home lab in Memphis, supported by his parents who valued his passion for science. His accomplishment earned him the Guinness World ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems marked a major milestone Tuesday morning, announcing the installation of a key component of its Sparc demonstration reactor.

Responders at the headquarters of the National Crisis Centre in cooperation with the IAEA and other partners, organized a large-scale nuclear emergency planning exercise at the Tihange nuclear power ...

In a remarkable achievement, Jackson Oswalt, a 12-year-old boy from Memphis, Tennessee, made history by becoming the youngest ...

U.K. start-up Pulsar Fusion has unveiled plans to build a fleet of reusable nuclear fusion-powered rockets, known as Sunbirds ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics ...