Ever since nuclear fusion was first discovered in the 1930s, scientists have imagined ways to harness its energy. The earliest designs for nuclear fusion reactors began in earnest in the 1950s, with ...

A major U.S. utility is part of a fusion energy project that would be located at the site of one of the company’s retired coal-fired power plants. Type One Energy Group on Feb. 21 announced plans to ...

The FAST (Fusion by Advanced Superconducting Tokamak) project has been launched in Japan with the aim of achieving fusion-based power generation by the end of the 2030s. Overview drawing of the FAST ...

China and the U.S. are in a race to create the first grid-scale nuclear fusion energy. After decades of U.S. leadership, China is catching up by spending twice as much and building projects at record ...

The world’s biggest fusion-energy experiment is likely to be beaten to its goals by other projects — but the massive reactor still has value, say scientists. The world’s flagship project to prove the ...

On December 20, Germany's BMBF-funded IFE Targetry HUB project was launched with the aim of researching basic technologies for laser-based inertial confinement fusion. The announcement from the ...