For decades, the U.S. has led the race to clean, limitless nuclear fusion energy. Now China is catching up, spending twice as ...

professor of nuclear science and engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The U.S. was first to large-scale use of fusion with a hydrogen bomb test in 1952. In the seven decades since ...

Often called the holy grail of clean energy, nuclear fusion creates four ... The U.S. was first to large-scale use of fusion with a hydrogen bomb test in 1952. In the seven decades since ...

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s but it was stopped because of ...

Perhaps Liu’s return to China signaled his belief that his native country was about to take the lead in the world fusion race. China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) is a nuclear ...

In “The Power of Nuclear,” Dutch journalist Marco Visscher takes aim at fears and misconceptions about atomic energy.