In a new milestone for fusion energy research, physicists in China say they have exceeded the plasma-density limit.

China’s flagship fusion experiment has pushed its superheated fuel into a regime that many physicists once dismissed as ...

Nuclear fusion, which operates on the same principle that powers the sun, is expected to become a sustainable energy source for the future. To achieve fusion power generation, it is essential to ...

As the focus on energy resiliency and competitiveness increases, the development of advanced materials for next-generation, commercial fusion reactors is gaining attention. A recent paper published in ...

Fusion plasma research centres on realising controlled thermonuclear reactions, with effective diagnostics playing an indispensable role in understanding plasma conditions and fast ion behaviour. Fast ...

(Editor’s note: The following article originally appeared in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in October, 1971. It is reprinted here in full in November 2024—so readers can get a sense of how ...