Ancient Japanese Art Inspires Next-Gen Fusion Reactor Breakthrough
Scientists take advantage of imperfections in magnetic fields to enhance fusion plasma. In the Japanese art of Kintsugi, an artist takes the broken shards of…
Scientists take advantage of imperfections in magnetic fields to enhance fusion plasma. In the Japanese art of Kintsugi, an artist takes the broken shards of…
Detailed study of high-temperature superconducting magnets built by MIT and Commonwealth Fusion Systems confirms they meet requirements for an economic, compact fusion power plant. In…
A Princeton-led team has developed an AI model to predict and avert plasma instabilities in fusion reactors, showcasing real-time control improvements and setting the stage…
Fast ions and plasma waves in fusion reactors engage in a complex dance of energy transfer, with resonance and collision impacts playing significant roles. This…
Neural networks guided by physics are creating new ways to observe the complexities of plasmas. Fusion experiments take place under extreme conditions, with extremely high-temperature…
New observations at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility offer vital insights into energetic ions in fusion plasmas, key for fusion power development and space plasma…
Perturbing the edge magnetic field of a tokamak produces a counterintuitive response: particles entering the confined region rather than escaping it. A tokamak uses magnetic…
Fusion’s success as a renewable energy depends on the creation of an industry to support it, and academia is vital to that industry’s development. A…
Federal funding brings together experts to chart a viable path to realizing fusion energy as a clean power source. The University of Rochester’s Laboratory for…
EPFL started up a variable-configuration tokamak reactor in 1992. Today, EPFL is a leading research institute in nuclear fusion, with the goal of replicating on…
An international team of researchers has discovered a method to predict and control the rotational temperatures of hydrogen molecules in fusion reactors. Humans may never…
A new paper lays out scientific methods for measuring and calculating Q in a sheared-flow-stabilized Z pinch. Zap Energy has outlined its unique approach to…
Plasma physicists from Ukraine, Germany and Japan collaborate to spark fusion power. Despite being forced to evacuate the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology due…
Researchers discover that ions behave differently in fusion reactions. Ions behave differently in fusion reactions than previously expected, according to new findings by scientists at…
LLNL’s National Ignition Facility achieved a significant milestone in fusion research in August 2021, with a fusion yield surpassing 1.3 MJ. The team is now…
Fusion nuclear science and technology specializes in investigating the extreme nuclear fusion environment. This environment has very high temperatures, particle fluxes, neutron irradiation, and other harsh…
The old joke is that nuclear fusion is always 30 years away. However, the dream of plentiful clean energy is no laughing matter as we…
New insights into understanding turbulence in fusion plasmas. In order to achieve fusion in a power plant, it is necessary to stably confine a plasma…