Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream ...

Useful, cost-effective nuclear fusion remains a distant dream, despite a small step in the right direction from the government's NIF reactor.

Existing fusion reactors can be split into two broad categories: inertial confinement reactors like the NIF's, which contain the hot plasma with lasers or particle beams, and magnetic confinement ...

Japan's experimental nuclear fusion reactor is up and running. JT-60SA is currently the most powerful experimental fusion reactor in operation. It's a different device than NIF's, which had a ...

The 2021 run signaled that ignition could be achieved within the NIF reactor. To finally cross the threshold, NIF researchers made a few minor tweaks, which included operating at slightly higher ...

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have achieved nuclear fusion ignition—a scientific energy breakeven. Here’s what you need to know.

Google has agreed to purchase 200 megawatts of fusion energy from Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS). That's assuming, of ...

Another issue is that the NIF reactor can fire only once, for a few billionths of a second, before it has to spend several hours cooling its components in order to be switched on once more.

While most fusion reactors are designed for experimentation in the technology, the BEST reactor aims to allow scientists to carry out real-world energy-producing reactions to achieve net energy gain.

A Denver-based start-up plans to use powerful lasers to spark a fusion reactor. ... (NIF) in California, a project to see if nuclear fuel pellets could be ignited using a powerful laser.