Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japan's experimental nuclear fusion reactor is up and running. JT-60SA is currently the most powerful experimental fusion reactor ...

Germany-based Focused Energy raised an oversubscribed $240M Series A led by utility RWE to commercialise laser-powered inertial confinement fusion based on the NIF’s historic net energy gain ...

Japan has officially launched its JT-60SA reactor, the world's largest nuclear fusion reactor, in what is being seen as a significant step toward commercial-scale nuclear fusion. Breakthroughs in ...

For billions of years, the Sun has been running the natural fusion process scientists have spent decades trying to reproduce ...

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the NIF have never been interested in achieving net power. They're in the business of nuclear weapons research. They'll throw out a press release every ...

NIF researchers achieved a nuclear fusion reaction that created more energy output than input, a historic first in energy research. Peer review confirms the breakthrough, opening the door for ...

Companies are looking to commercialize advances made by federally supported research labs in the quest for boundless energy. By Kenneth Chang Take a smidgen of hydrogen, then blast it with lasers to ...

Ever since their conception in the 1970s, fusion reactors have remained a long-elusive goal for humankind. With the ever-growing scarcity of fossil fuels, coupled with their propensity for greenhouse ...

CLEAN energy inspired by the stars is the dream of scientists pursuing nuclear fusion, in which atomic nuclei fuse together and release energy. In a first for laser-driven fusion, scientists at a US ...