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A couple stepped onto the back porch of their home near Rich Valley, Alta., just before 7 p.m. to get a closer look at the ...
Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream ...
Google has agreed to purchase 200 megawatts of fusion energy from Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS). That's assuming, of ...
Proxima Fusion secures HTS tape supply from Faraday Factory Japan for its demo stellarator magnet, due in 2027.
TAE’s neutral particle beam technology forms a hollow football of superheated plasma right in the center of the Norm machine, where the plasma is confined by magnets and the plasma’s own magnetic ...
Capturing the plasma stream, also called a "plasmoid" is a first. This never-before-seen phenomenon forms and collapses rapidly while shooting around at nearly 62 miles per second, ...
For the first time, the Huanliu-3 (HL-3) tokamak reactor in Chengdu has achieved a plasma state with ion temperatures of 117 million degrees Celsius and electron temperatures of 160 million ...
Chinese team breaks plasma work record with EAST device The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) nuclear fusion facility in China, which is operated under the Institute of Plasma ...
WEST is the new plasma record holder Enter WEST, which smashed EAST’s plasma duration just a few weeks later with 1,337 seconds, or 22 minutes and 17 seconds, on February 12, making it the new holder ...
Tan Sui would like to acknowledge funding from the UK's Royal Academy of Engineering under the Industrial Fellowships programme. The pursuit of nuclear fusion as a clean, sustainable energy source ...
Mayonnaise, when subjected to pressure, mimics the behavior of plasma, the superheated matter at the heart of fusion reactions. This allowed scientists to investigate hydrodynamic instabilities in ...
Earlier this month, OpenStar Technologies announced it had managed to create superheated plasma at temperatures of around 300,000 degrees Celsius, or 540,000 degrees Fahrenheit — one necessary ...