In this final segment of RealClearScience's interview with Laban Conblentz, Head of Communication at ITER, Coblentz shares the tale of how the world's largest fusion reactor came to be built in the pi ...

China’s EAST reactor has achieved a new milestone by sustaining plasma at 100 million degrees Celsius for 1,066 seconds. This ...

The new material could be key to finally building a successful fusion reactor.

ITER, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, may be the grandest scientific experiment in the world. Initially ...

Researchers at UC Berkeley used their new AI technique to teach robots how to efficiently flip eggs, build motherboards and ...

The nuclear reactor is yet to achieve ignition which is the point at which nuclear fusion creates its own energy and sustains the reactions. However, the new record is an encouraging step towards ...

Clean power sources in greater quantities is an imperative, and the power vacuum could be addressed by SMRs, small modular nuclear reactors. Two companies at the nexus of data centers and energy are ...

As environmental concerns mount, nuclear propulsion offers a solution for billionaires. It allows for zero-emission cruising powered by technology that can run for years without refueling.

Nuclear reactors generate energy through a process called fission, which involves splitting atoms of a heavy element into lighter elements. Fusion uses the opposite process: It merges two light ...

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According to Chinese state media, the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) nuclear fusion reactor was able to maintain a steady and highly contained loop of plasma for 1,066 ...

For over 70 years, physicists around the globe have dreamed of developing a nuclear fusion reactor, which would need to maintain stable long-term operation at temperatures exceeding 100 million de ...