When the plasma inside a fusion system starts to misbehave, it needs to be quickly cooled to prevent damage to the device.

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

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

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

China has made a significant breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology, achieving record temperatures in its EAST experiment, ...

The difference between the two processes is that while heavy atoms are split into lighter atoms to produce energy in nuclear fission, in fusion, atoms are combined. This was primarily because fusion ...

After more than a decade in the United States, nuclear physicist Liu Chang, whose research has been crucial in the journey to achieve fusion energy, has left Princeton University for a position at ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. North Korea unveils nuclear-powered submarine for the first time In this undated photo provided on March 8 ...

North Korea unveiled for the first time a nuclear-powered submarine under construction, a weapons system that can pose a major security threat to South Korea and the US. State media on Saturday ...

Many communities rely on insights from computer-based models and simulations. This week, a nest of Georgia Tech experts are swarming an international conference to present their latest advancements in ...

This is unlike fission, in which a heavy element is split into fragments. For fuel, fusion utilizes sources like hydrogen and lithium, which are abundant and accessible. Now, a fusion reactor is a ...

It had 363.1 pounds in August. “The significantly increased production and accumulation of high enriched uranium by Iran, the only non-nuclear weapon State to produce such nuclear material ...