The dream of the ancient alchemists may come true as Marathon Fusion announces that its tokamak fusion reactor technology can turn common mercury into gold as a byproduct of fusion operations in ...

Zap Energy’s three-meter reactor uses a lead-lithium liquid wall, cutting hardware needs and bringing cleaner, modular power ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems is trying to bring a long-promised technology to reality. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nuclear fusion promises a green and infinitely renewable supply of energy—if we can harness it. Fusion happens all the time inside ...

In an audacious stride for the energy sector, a fusion startup has announced the design of what they claim to be the world’s first practical nuclear fusion reactor. We delve into the details of this ...

The industry is getting billions, but it’s way too early to count on fusion to meet growing electricity demand. This week, Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced it has another customer for its first ...

General Fusion announced on Tuesday that it had successfully created plasma, a superheated fourth state of matter required for fusion, inside a prototype reactor. The milestone marks the beginning of ...

Reactors designed to produce energy from the fusion of atoms could have an unexpected scientific side benefit. An international team of researchers has shown that low-mass dark-sector particles, such ...

In the hills of southern France, far from daily political drama and market headlines, a single engineering move is quietly reshaping what “possible” looks like for nuclear fusion. At the ITER site ...

What’s sixty feet (18.29 meters for the rest of the world) across and superconducting? The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), and probably not much else. The last parts of the ...