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

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 ...

Russian scientists have developed a new technology for the production of materials for creating elements of thermonuclear ...

As environmental concerns mount, nuclear propulsion offers a solution for billionaires. Nuclear-powered yachts could potentially sail the world’s oceans without emitting direct carbon, making them a ...

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 ...

Hoping to capitalize on the data center power boom, state-owned utility Santee Cooper is looking for partners to help finance and complete the two reactors at the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Power ...

a strong magnetic field and an electromagnetic system made of a high-temperature superconductor ... the construction of the TRT is an important stage in the development of controlled thermonuclear ...