In an unassuming industrial park 30 miles outside Boston, engineers are building a futuristic machine to replicate the energy that powers the stars. If all goes to plan, it could be the key to ...

The world’s largest and most powerful superconducting electromagnet is ready to become the pulsing “heart” inside of a ...

Founded in 1960 by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Nuclear Fusion is the leading journal in the field ... A category of article, the 'special topic', covers, for example, results from ...

Nuclear fusion and nuclear fission are two fundamental nuclear reactions ... Potential applications include space travel and marine propulsion. An example of the latter exists from 1991 when ...

Such issues have led to a resurgence of interest in a third nuclear option, which combines aspects of both technologies in the form of the fusion–fission hybrid reactor. The fusion–fission ...

Nuclear power, both the resurgence of fission and the promise of fusion, could secure our energy future and position the U.S. as the global leader in energy technology for the foreseeable future ...

The word “nuclear” conjures two images: A family and a mushroom cloud. Or for some, two trumpeting columns coughing clouds over Springfield, Homer Simpson unaware of the glowing green rod that ...

similar to the process for wind and solar energy projects. Previously, state law didn’t distinguish between fission and fusion. Nuclear fission splits atoms, while nuclear fusion joins them.

Nuclear fusion releases four times more energy per kg than a nuclear fission reaction. The technological difficulties of fusion reactors are difficult to overcome. Temperatures approaching the ...