France has upped the ante in the quest for fusion power by maintaining a plasma reaction for over 22 minutes – a new record. The milestone was reached on February 12 at the Commissariat à l'énergie ...

This was the basis of US hydrogen bomb tests in the South Pacific (Bikini Atoll) in the 1950s before the test ban treaty of 1963. Commercial application of nuclear fusion has been sought over the ...

Most of us learned about the law of conservation of matter and energy in a science class in the elementary grades. It states that matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed but can be ...

An curved arrow pointing right. North Korea recently claimed to test a hydrogen bomb. Some experts say it is more likely they tested a "boosted" atomic bomb. Although this type of bomb isn't ...

China is building a large-scale laser-ignited nuclear fusion research facility in Mianyang to enhance both nuclear weapons design and clean energy pro ...

Also called a fusion bomb, hydrogen bomb or H-bomb, a thermonuclear weapon is a second-generation nuclear weapon design that is vastly superior to the first-generation atomic bombs. In fact ...

Scientists first harnessed fusion nearly 70 years ago with the development of the hydrogen bomb. Controlling reactions to produce continuous energy has, however, been proved impossible despite the ...

Anhui Province has set a new record with a 1,066-second sustained fusion reaction. For 80 years, there has been a concerted effort to turn the incredible destructive power of the hydrogen bomb ...

China appears to be building a large laser-ignited fusion research centre in the southwestern city of Mianyang, experts at ...

and a fusion tamper, uranium. Results of the explosion seemed to indicate the device as more similar to a powerful fission bomb than an actual hydrogen bomb. The test’s explosion yielded the ...