Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Fusion power could revolutionize our energy system. But after decades of research, it’s still out of reach.

If the 2020s are going to be the decade of AI, then the 2030s could be the decade of fusion power — that is, if the sector’s startups are able to deliver. Fusion power has never had a more solid ...

Nuclear fusion has long been seen as the ultimate prize in the quest for clean and abundant energy. Fusion is the process that fuels the sun, where a crushing gravitational force smashes atoms ...

US government scientists have reportedly made a major breakthrough in the race to develop practical nuclear fusion – the process that promises “limitless, zero-carbon power”. Does nuclear energy have ...

A breakthrough this week in nuclear fusion could point the way to a future of carbon-free power. In a press conference Tuesday in California, the Department of Energy revealed that at 1:03 a.m. Dec. 5 ...

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