Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In the race for clean energy, no technology is quite as promising as nuclear fusion, but the road toward energy freedom is filled with barriers that ...
Inside a donut-shaped vacuum chamber in Hefei, China, superheated plasma recently did something it was not supposed to do: it ...
The "artificial sun" HL-3 at the CNNC Southwestern Institute of Physics in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan Province. Photo: VCG China's new-generation "artificial sun," HL-3, is accelerating toward ...
EAST’s accomplishment is notable since the density limit has long prevented researchers from increasing plasma density past a certain point. Higher plasma density has historically been associated with ...
The world’s biggest nuclear fusion experiment is nearing the commissioning stage in France. L&T has been responsible for ...
China is ramping up its nuclear fusion drive with the launch of a new state-backed firm. China Fusion Energy Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), was founded in ...
Chinese nuclear boffins have gotten their fusion reactor to the temperature needed to keep a fusion reaction that produces more power than it takes to run. The team of scientists from China’s ...