This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Fusion energy has the potential to be an effective clean energy source, as its reactions generate incredibly large amounts of energy. Fusion ...

A fusion experiment ran so hot that the wall materials facing the plasma retained defects. Christophe Roux/CEA IRFM, CC BY Fusion energy has the potential to be an effective clean energy source, as ...

It's been almost 90 years since scientists made the first fusion reaction in a lab. But trying to create power from fusion presents a lot of problems. Two experts explain how long it could take until ...

For long-time followers of fusion energy, Tokamak Hall is the high-water mark after decades of ups and downs. From an observation deck on the side, the surgically-clean, hospital-white room feels both ...

Energy is not great for peace. Countries go to war over fossil fuels, argue over nuclear power and commit some of the worst atrocities of human slavery to mine the materials we need to power our world ...

For decades, the dream of a virtually limitless, clean energy source has hovered just out of reach, more science fiction than reality. Now, a new “volume burn” breakthrough in nuclear fusion research ...

This vision could make fusion research more accessible and collaborative. By breaking the problem into manageable parts—like how to pack fuel more efficiently—scientists everywhere can contribute, ...

Fusion energy, a technology that promises to harness the power of the stars to create abundant, clean electricity on earth, is sometimes said to be "the energy of the future.” Then comes the cruel ...

Nuclear fusion promises a green and infinitely renewable supply of energy—if we can harness it. Fusion happens all the time inside the sun. But to recreate the process on Earth, we must control ...

The quest to develop nuclear fusion—the process that energizes the sun and other stars—as an earth-based power source dates back more than a century when Albert Einstein and other scientists theorized ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Sophie Blondel, University of Tennessee (THE CONVERSATION) Fusion energy has the ...