“Unlike large pure fusion reactors, compact spherical tokamaks may be used to produce high-energy fast neutrons economically, which can breed fuel for traditional nuclear reactors or burn their ...

More than 130 experimental nuclear fusion reactors, both public and private ... was relocated to the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) at the end of 2020. The machine previously belonged to ...

Since 2020, there has been a rapid increase in startups related to small fusion reactors in the private sector. According to Professor Choi, private sector investments have risen swiftly from $4.8 ...

Last summer, when word came down that ITER, the international thermonuclear reactor, would be built in France, fusion scientists breathed a collected sigh of relief. The start of construction of ...

a superheated fourth state of matter required for fusion, inside a prototype reactor. The milestone marks the beginning of a 93-week quest to prove that the outfit’s steampunk approach to fusion ...

A commercial fusion reactor is expected to need tonnes of the element every day. “However, these challenges pale in comparison to the bigger challenges with plasma reactors and laser ignition ...

Yet to replicate the nuclear fusion process that powers the very stars ... Add to this the massively disrupted supply chains in 2020 and beyond due to the pandemic, and it would have been more ...

But now, with net-positive fusion power no longer the stuff of science fiction, a fresh crop of startups have been founded on more mundane questions: Can reactors be built for less money?

A world record for nuclear fusion has been smashed after an ‘artificial sun’ reactor was able to maintain a plasma for more than 22 minutes. The WEST reactor, in southern France, is at the ...

Fusion on the other hand does not create any long-lived radioactive nuclear waste. A fusion reactor produces helium, which is an inert gas. It also produces and consumes tritium within the plant in a ...

Japan’s JT-60SA fusion reactor project announced first plasma ... with superconducting coils was supposed to last from 2013 to 2020, with first plasma that same year. During commissioning ...