MIT: On Course to Create a Fusion Power Plant
How an MIT engineering course became an incubator for fusion design innovations. “There is no lone genius who solves all the problems.” Dennis Whyte, director…
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Nuclear Fusion: Building a Star on Earth Is Hard – We Need Better Materials
Nuclear fusion is the process that powers the Sun and all other stars. During fusion, the nuclei of two atoms are brought close enough together…
Ingredient in Household Cleaner Improves Efficiency of Fusion Reactions
Want to improve your chances of making electricity from fusion? Look no further than the cleaners under your kitchen sink. Research led by scientists at…
Faster Fusion Reactor Calculations Thanks to AI
Fusion reactor technologies are well-positioned to contribute to our future power needs in a safe and sustainable manner. Numerical models can provide researchers with information…
Decarbonizing US Energy: An Aggressive Market-Driven Model for Fusion Power Development
National Academies study says fusion can help decarbonize US energy, calls for public-private approach to pilot plant operation by 2035-40. Electricity generated by fusion power…
New Fiber Optic Temperature Sensing Approach to Keep Tokamak Fusion Power Plants Running
MIT’s Erica Salazar shows that faster detection of thermal shifts can prevent disruptive quench events in the HTS magnets used in tokamak fusion devices. The…
Future Zero-Emissions Power Plants: Scientists Collaborate on Development of Commercial Fusion Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is collaborating with private industry on cutting-edge fusion research aimed at achieving commercial fusion…
Korean Artificial Sun – KSTAR Fusion Reactor – Sets New World Record
KSTAR sets the new world record of 20-sec-long operation at 100 million °C. Aims to continuously operate high-temperature plasma over the 100-million-degree for 300 seconds…
ARC Pilot Fusion Power Plant: Pushing the Envelope With Fusion Magnets
MIT Energy Fellow David Fischer irradiates high-temperature superconducting tape to test its resilience and prepare for the first pilot fusion plant. “At the age of…
Zero-Emissions Energy: Comprehensive Physics Basis for a New Fusion Reactor Design
As part of the Journal of Plasma Physics’ continuing focus on the scientific progress in fusion physics, the journal editors and Cambridge University Press are…
Unexpected Electrical Current Discovered That Could Stabilize Fusion Reactions – Bringing the Fusion Energy That Drives the Sun to Earth
Electric current is everywhere, from powering homes to controlling the plasma that fuels fusion reactions to possibly giving rise to vast cosmic magnetic fields. Now,…
Physicists New Pulsed RF Control Method for Improving the Performance of Fusion Reactions
Scientists have found a novel way to prevent pesky magnetic bubbles in plasma from interfering with fusion reactions – delivering a potential way to improve…
Cutting-Edge W7-X Nuclear Fusion Device Overcomes Obstacles
A key hurdle facing fusion devices called stellarators — twisty facilities that seek to harness on Earth the fusion reactions that power the sun and…
Shattered Argon Pellet Injection Technology for Fusion Reactors
As scientists study approaches to best sustain a fusion reactor, a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory investigated injecting shattered argon pellets into a…
New Design Could Finally Help Bring Fusion Power Closer to Reality
Advances in magnet technology have enabled MIT scientists to propose a new design for a practical compact tokamak fusion reactor. It’s an old joke that…
New Superconducting Cable System Brings Nuclear Fusion Power Station Closer to Reality
Researchers at the University of Twente have developed a new superconducting cable system that is crucial to the success of nuclear fusion reactors. The superconductivity…
A Big Step Forward for Nuclear Fusion Power
ITER researchers working to help bring fusion power to the commercial market completed a critical step this week, successfully testing their technology that serves to…