ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) is a multinational fusion project in France aiming to prove that ...

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 ...

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“Plutonium isotopic signatures, a unique nuclear bomb fingerprint, remained in the range of the global fallout signatures largely dominated by US and former USSR nuclear tests, significantly ...

Now known as CNL's Clean Energy Siting Program, the new program will also invite vendors and technology developers interested in building prototype solutions that include fusion-based technologies, ...

Some of the Los Alamos scientists feared that the USSR might already be working on a hydrogen bomb and one of them, the arch-hawk, Edward Teller, urged the rapid development of a weapon with an ...

AP Igniting fusion fuel allows researchers to study how such reactions work and how they might one day create a clean power source using the universe’s most plentiful resource, hydrogen.

Igniting fusion fuel allows researchers to study how such reactions work and how they might one day create a clean power source using the universe's most plentiful resource, hydrogen. It also enables ...

The number of Chinese operational nuclear warheads has increased by more than 100 to over 600, the Pentagon reported.

NIF's mission is to achieve fusion ignition with high energy gain. Satellite photos show four outlying "arms" that will house laser bays, and a central experiment bay that will hold a target chamber ...

The physicists used a system designed to mimic the fusion reactions at the core of the sun by using hydrogen and deuterium gases as fuel. They say that to make nuclear fusion a viable source of ...

Igniting fusion fuel allows researchers to study how such reactions work and how they might one day create a clean power source using the universe's most plentiful resource, hydrogen. It also enables ...