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France tops China’s tokamak record with 22-minute plasma containment run
Nice number, but also not much more than a nice advance
Science20 Feb 2025 | 49
Fusion Power
Proposed way to generate electricity using heat from nuclear fusion reactions.
Helion bags $425M in fresh funding despite fusion power still being a distant dream
Microsoft-backed startup now valued at $5.4B
On-Prem29 Jan 2025 | 10
China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run
1,066 seconds of steady-state high-confinement plasma operation and all that
Science22 Jan 2025 | 74
Viable fusion power in a decade? Tokamak Energy dares to dream
Brit biz updates world on why tech might not be forever 30 years away
Science16 Oct 2024 | 32
Magnetic personalities at Tokamak Energy form separate division
Fusion biz wants to break superconducting tech into other sectors
Science03 Sep 2024 | 17
ITER delays first plasma for world's biggest fusion power rig by a decade
Who could have guessed that giant magnets capable of constraining mini-suns would be hard to build?
Science04 Jul 2024 | 105
BROADER TOPICS
White House hopes $180M will solve science, tech gaps in commercial fusion power
Researchers get 4 years, a small pot of cash, and long row to hoe before making tech practical by next decade
Science07 Jun 2024 | 19
Joint European Torus experiments end on a 69 megajoules high
Meanwhile ITER's not slated to start deuterium-tritium ops until 2035
Science09 Feb 2024 | 40
US fusion energy dreams edge closer to reality, Congress permitting
Yields could double next year – provided the budget is passed
Science02 Jan 2024 | 27
Uncle Sam plows $42M into nurturing fusion breakthrough
Experimerntal milestone needs work before it can be considered a candidate for power generation
Science08 Dec 2023 | 27
World's largest nuclear fusion reactor comes online in Japan
JT-60SA produces largest volume of plasma ever made by humans, paves way for ITER
Science04 Dec 2023 | 125
US shovels cash into supercomputers hoping to stoke fusion future
$112M for 12 projects announced on heels of LLNL's second successful fusion ignition
HPC15 Aug 2023 | 2
Lawrence Livermore lab repeats fusion breakthrough – yep, still kinda works
Greater yield than last year, but don't ditch your solar panels just yet
Science07 Aug 2023 | 25
UK's dream of fusion power by 2040s will need GPUs
Boffins plan 'digital twin' to help hit deadline, recruit heavy-hitting partners
Science29 Jun 2023 | 21
Brits and Yanks join forces to make fusion magnets cool again
How cool? About -250°C
Science31 May 2023 | 23
Microsoft and Helion's fusion deal has an alternative energy
Opinion It’s about power and money alright, just not like that
Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week22 May 2023 | 46
Microsoft's big bet on helium-3 fusion explained
Feature Magnets, not lasers, could be secret to endless power (if it actually works)
Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week17 May 2023 | 77
Microsoft signs up to buy electricity produced by fusion, perhaps in 2028
How complicated can fusion be, really?
Science12 May 2023 | 18
Brit fusion magnets set for US gamma ray bombardment test
Tokamak Energy off to Albuquerque desert to douse kit in radiation
Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week27 Apr 2023 | 10
Sandia opens up ultra-fast X-ray cameras to speedy shutterbugs
Seriously, this tech makes your phone camera look like it's from the stone age
Science14 Mar 2023 | 7
Atomic energy body proposes fusion framework to manage British energy grids
When you need something reliable that won't drop out of support, open is the way to go
Software06 Mar 2023 | 96
Private company set up to oversee UK's prototype fusion reactor
STEP won't be complete until 2040, but here's a 'delivery body' in the meantime
Science06 Feb 2023 | 35
Since humans can't manage fusion, the US puts millions into AI-powered creation
Some terms and condition may apply
AI + ML23 Dec 2022 | 65
America's nuclear fusion 'breakthrough' is super-hot ... yet far from practical
First ignition is awesome, but economics and engineering to deliver clean energy promise are nowhere
Science14 Dec 2022 | 66
US Dept of Energy set to reveal fusion breakthrough
Updated If Uncle Sam got more power out of a reaction than it put in, it's a new dawn for clean energy
Science13 Dec 2022 | 100
US Dept of Energy injects more particles of cash into tokamak fusion reactors
The funding will continue, until the atoms fuse
Science17 Oct 2022 | 28
UK politico proposes site for prototype nuclear fusion plant
British minister famed for love of imperial measures picks a spot in center of industrial decline
Science05 Oct 2022 | 229
Scientists, why not simply invent a working fusion plant using $50m from Uncle Sam
You even have until the end of the 2030s to get it done
Science29 Sep 2022 | 96
South Korea takes massive step toward sustainable nuclear fusion reactions
Plasma at over 100 million kelvin for 20 seconds adds to list of noteworthy fusion breakthroughs in 2022
Science08 Sep 2022 | 18
First Light says it's hit nuclear fusion breakthrough with no fancy lasers, magnets
We talk to CEO about projectile-based implosion design
Science07 Apr 2022 | 151
Congress earmarks cash for fusion energy development
When it comes to smashing atoms, things are really starting to heat up
Science14 Mar 2022 | 8
Joint European Torus more than doubles fusion record with 59 megajoules
Next stop, ITER?
Science09 Feb 2022 | 123
Burning plasma signals step forward in race for nuclear fusion as researchers get bigger capsule for their 192-laser experiment
But work at US security-linked lab falls short of true ignition. 'This is physics,' they say
Science27 Jan 2022 | 40
It's more than 20 years since Steps topped the charts. It could be less than that for STEP's first fusion energy
Anyone fancy a spherical tokamak in their backyard?
Science26 Jan 2022 | 70
Joint European Torus celebrates 100,000 pulses: Neither Brexit nor middle age has stopped '80s era experiment
Fusion energy projects nearing 40th anniversary
Science21 Jan 2022 | 39
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