In brief: The world's most ambitious nuclear fusion project has hit another major delay, with scientists now saying the massive International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor won't start genuine ...

The ITER nuclear fusion project, a global endeavour involving over 30 countries, has reached a significant milestone by completing the world's most powerful magnet, essential for confining plasma in ...

Ever since nuclear fusion was first discovered in the 1930s, scientists have imagined ways to harness its energy. The earliest designs for nuclear fusion reactors began in earnest in the 1950s, with ...

SINGAPORE, May 1 (Reuters) - A much-delayed nuclear fusion project involving more than 30 countries is ready to assemble the world's most powerful magnet - a key part of efforts to generate clean ...

In the heart of Provence, Southern France, the world's largest fusion energy experiment, which could be a step towards unlimited energy, has quietly entered perhaps the most critical stage yet. The ...

The FAST (Fusion by Advanced Superconducting Tokamak) project has been launched in Japan with the aim of achieving fusion-based power generation by the end of the 2030s. Overview drawing of the FAST ...

The IAEA is launching a new five-year Coordinated Research Project (CRP F43028) to assemble, validate and distribute data on tungsten impurity processes in fusion plasmas—critical for advancing ...

The giant magnet prior to the unveiling ceremony at General Atomics. (Photo by JW August/Times of San Diego) Sitting inside a building in a Poway industrial park is the result of nearly 20 years of ...

The U.S. and China lead global efforts to make nuclear fusion commercially viable, with billion-dollar projects aiming for net-positive energy. Los Alamos scientists successfully recreated a 1938 ...

The UK government announced plans to develop a National Policy Statement to unblock fusion energy projects, making the UK the first country in the world to develop fusion-specific planning rules. A ...

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), a multi-national endeavor to build a system to experiment with nuclear fusion, has just completed the final component of its pulsed ...