A single fusion reactor will need hundreds of grams to one kilogram (2.2 lbs.) of tritium a day to operate. Right now, conventional nuclear reactors produce tritium as a byproduct of fission ...

The company called the agreement a "commercialization landmark" between a developer of fusion technology and a utility that could one day operate the world's first commercial fusion power plant, named ...

General Fusion says its new fusion reactor will produce more power than it consumes by 2027 — a breakthrough that could ...

No worries, [Nate Sales] has your back with his openreactor project, your one-click fusion solution! An inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) fusor is perhaps the easiest type of fusion for the ...

The Bill-Gates-backed company's CEO aims to build the first viable fusion power plant and doesn't want perfect to be the ...

After purchasing the materials he needed and spending more than a year testing his experiment, Jackson officially became the youngest person to achieve nuclear fusion in 2018, when his efforts - ...

Now, by smashing the 20-minute mark, the WEST reactor has taken a stride towards running for longer - one of the three ‘golden conditions’ to achieve nuclear fusion. Plasma is created when the ...

While nuclear power plants have become ubiquitous, they all operate using nuclear fission — but one energy startup has plans to change this. Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a spinoff branch ...

So how exactly does nuclear fusion work? Simply put, nuclear fusion is the process by which two light atomic nuclei combine to form a single heavier one while releasing massive amounts of energy.

General Fusion announced on Tuesday that it had successfully created plasma, a superheated fourth state of matter required for fusion, inside a prototype reactor. The milestone marks the beginning ...

1,337 seconds: that was how long WEST, a tokamak run from the CEA Cadarache site in southern France and one of the EUROfusion ... which will need to maintain fusion plasmas for several minutes.