Global scientists have worked for more than 70 years on trying to achieve this feat. However, only after reaching temperatures over 100 million degrees Celsius, sustaining stable long-term operation, ...

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), commonly known as China's "artificial sun," has achieved a ...

The duration of 1,000 seconds is considered a key step in fusion research. The breakthrough, achieved by the Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, greatly improved the ...

China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) has set a new world record maintaining steady-state ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — The world’s first-ever grid-scale commercial fusion power plant is coming to Chesterfield County. In a Dec. 17 press release, Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS ...

Gong Xianzu (C), head of division of the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak Physics and Experimental Operations, communicates with team members during an experiment in Hefei ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a subsidiary of MIT, has announced plans to build the first commercial power plant harnessing nuclear fusion energy there. A worker inside the vacuum chamber of a ...

But while research has been going on apace to make nuclear fusion energy production a reality, so far nobody has achieved “net energy”, where more power is produced than is used to create the ...

While nuclear power plants have become ubiquitous, they all operate using nuclear fission — but one energy startup has plans to change this. Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a spinoff branch ...

A shortlist of five bids to build a fusion power plant in Nottinghamshire has been announced by the government. The prototype is due to be built on the site of the former West Burton coal-fired ...

Chris Wright, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head the U.S. Energy Department, told U.S. senators in his confirmation ...