The U.S. government has launched the process to develop a regulatory framework to develop fusion machines as emerging nuclear ...

About 60 years ago, Russian physicist Lev Artsimovich said nuclear fusion “will be ready when society needs it”. The UK has achieved a “major breakthrough for fusion energy research”, the UK Atomic ...

Founder Ratu Mataira is convinced OpenStar can outpace rivals with its cheaper reactor design.

What if the key to solving the world’s energy crisis was hidden in a process so ambitious, so technically demanding, that even experts once dismissed it as science fiction? For decades, nuclear fusion ...

Why is the Sun so hot? Discover the simple science behind nuclear fusion, the powerful reaction that makes our star shine and ...

Booth is a reporter at TIME. Booth is a reporter at TIME. When Sam Altman arrived at Helion Energy’s small Redmond, Wash., office in early 2014, nuclear-fusion textbooks tucked under his arm, the ...

GREIFSWALD, GERMANY - OCTOBER 29: A worker explains a photo taken about a year and a half ago that shows construction of the interior plasma chamber of the Wendelstein 7-X experimental fusion reactor ...

Aiden McMillan, a 12-year-old from Dallas, has successfully produced nuclear fusion in his playroom. He spent four years on the project.

General Fusion is set to become the first publicly traded company dedicated solely to nuclear fusion, signaling growing investor confidence in the field. The company’s piston-driven, liquid-lithium ...

Claims of “net energy gain” in fusion experiments often exclude the massive energy consumed by the full system, leading to misleading headlines. Even under optimistic timelines, commercial fusion ...

China's Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak fusion facility (BEST) has entered a new construction phase as it speeds toward its 2027 target completion date. The state-run nuclear ...