Tech giant Google has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) to buy at least 200 MW ...

The DOE secretary's proposed budget would slash research programs and boost efforts "to reindustrialize America, to win the ...

China has built the world’s largest laser fusion facility, revealed by satellite imagery. This groundbreaking project could ...

The company raised $425 million in January 2025, around the same time that it turned on Polaris, a prototype reactor. Helion ...

In other words, the UK's latest investment in the fusion dream is still betting on just that - a dream. We may be making advances toward fusion energy, but £2.5 billion is a big ask for a country ...

A paper on fusion neutron sources by a team from the United States of America’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the University of Rochester has won the IAEA’s annual Nuclear Fusion prize.

It is noted that at first the researchers managed to increase the output energy to 5.2 megajoules, and then bring it to 8.6 megajoules, which is significantly higher than the of the previous ...

But the NIF’s reactor differs significantly from CFS’s, using lasers to compress a fuel pellet to fusion conditions. CFS’s tokamak uses magnets to herd 100 million degree C plasma into a ...

EAST is a testbed reactor for ITER, ... (NIF), achieved the milestone in 2022. At the NIF, a system of 192 high-power lasers delivers 2.05 megajoules (MJ) ...

The design of the facility closely mirrors that of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) ... India operates 23 nuclear power reactors, generating approximately 6 per cent of its total electricity.

China is constructing a massive laser-ignited fusion research facility in Mianyang, with a structure resembling the U.S. National Ignition Facility (NIF). Satellite images suggest the experiment ...