Fusion power has the potential to provide clean and safe energy that is free from carbon dioxide emissions. However, imitating the solar energy process is a difficult task to achieve. Two yo... Read more
A successful start with helium plasma / hydrogen plasma to follow at the beginning of 2016 On 10th December 2015 the first helium plasma was produced in the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device at... Read more
It’s a sure bet that the best known “arc reactor” in the world is the glowing energy source in the chest of Tony Stark, the inventor with a superhero complex at the heart of the “Iron Man” f... Read more
Fusion energy almost sounds too good to be true – zero greenhouse gas emissions, no long-lived radioactive waste, a nearly unlimited fuel supply Perhaps the biggest roadblock to adopting fus... Read more
Cheap, practical fusion may be closer than you think. Nuclear fusion is 30 years away, and always will be. That’s the refrain we’ve heard, again and again for decades. And yet, q... 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
Results show the plasma is stable and the method is energy-efficient Researchers around the world are working on an efficient, reliable way to contain the plasma used in fusion reactors, pot... Read more