It will generate “some 1 billion watts of power for several weeks on end” A fusion power demonstration reactor to be built in the 2030s in collaboration with the DoE’s Princeton Plasma... Read more
One more major step towards the dream of nuclear fusion power. A researcher at the Universidad politécnica de Madrid (UPM) has patented a nuclear fusion reactor by inertial confinement that,... Read more
Fusion break-even In the beginning, there was the thermonuclear bomb – mankind had harnessed the energy of the Sun. Confident predictions abounded that fusion reactors would be providi... Read more
Generating electricity by nuclear fusion has long looked like a chimera. A reactor being built in Germany may change that AS THE old joke has it, fusion is the power of the future—and always... Read more
DEBATE about America’s energy supply is heating up: gas prices are rising, ethanol is under attack and nuclear power continues to struggle in the shadow of the Fukushima disaster in Japan. B... Read more
Venture capitalists and funding agencies aim to get some bang for their alternative fusion bucks, but a lot of unknowns remain When it comes to radical energy solutions, an extreme long shot... Read more
Image via Wikipedia An alternative approach to achieving nuclear fusion in the laboratory LIKE conquistadors seeking El Dorado, physicists cannot leave the idea of fusion power alone. Some s... Read more
Image via Wikipedia A major hurdle to producing fusion energy using lasers has been swept aside, results in a new report show. The controlled fusion of atoms – creating conditions lik... Read more