Future fusion reactors have a conundrum: how to maintain a plasma core that is hotter than the surface of the sun without melting the device walls. Researchers call this challenge “core-edge ...

A world record in heating power, in relation to the size of the device, has been achieved by the ASDEX Upgrade fusion device at Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP) in Garching. This was made ...

China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak has pushed fusion research into a new regime by holding a high density ...

Magnetic confinement fusion offers the prospect of a carbon-neutral, environmentally responsible and inexaustible energy source. The present main-line approach to magnetic fusion energy is via the ...

Results shown in this article were published in a scientific journal of the Nature publishing group, Scientific Reports. In order to achieve nuclear fusion power generation, it is necessary to confine ...

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have simulated the spontaneous transition of turbulence at the edge of a fusion plasma to the ...

Scientists have furthered understanding of a barrier that can prevent doughnut-shaped fusion facilities known as tokamaks from operating at high efficiency by causing vital heat to be lost from them.

The footage offers an unprecedentedly colorful look at the extreme physics at play—revealing valuable information for researchers studying fusion. Reading time 2 minutes Nuclear fusion may always be ...

Space Forge has positioned itself as a specialist in off‑planet manufacturing, building satellites designed not just to ...