Chinese scientists sustain plasma at 100 million degrees C for 1,066 seconds in EAST, advancing nuclear fusion research.

Imagine a world where energy is limitless, clean, and safe—without the environmental toll of fossil fuels or the risks of nuclear meltdowns. This is the promise of nuclear fusion, a process that ...

Yet despite improvements in the design of nuclear-fission ... but requires a chain reaction for the reactor to remain self-sustaining. By comparison, a fusion reactor generates an abundance ...

Achieving nuclear fusion on Earth is only practical under very extreme conditions, for example, plasma temperatures above hundreds of millions of ... more efficient reactor designs able to maintain ...

Chinese researchers set a new record by sustaining a nuclear fusion reaction at 100 million degrees Celsius for 1,066 seconds. China invests nearly double the U.S. in fusion research, with Energy ...

In a world first, NIF scientists achieved a successful nuclear fusion reaction with a net energy gain (although they didn’t count the energy needed to power the lasers). It was a big step ...

Countries are allowed "subcritical" explosive tests, which do not create nuclear reactions. Laser fusion research, known as inertial confinement fusion, is also allowed. Siegfried Hecker ...

Chinese researchers from the Institute of Plasma Physics (ASIPP) at the Hefei Institute of Physical Science have managed to sustain a nuclear fusion reaction at a temperature of 100 million ...