"Based on current knowledge and technological capabilities, achieving controlled nuclear fusion will take at least another 20 to 30 years," Wang Mingdan, a member of the 14th National Committee of the ...

The stakes of the “race to fusion” are dramatic. Commercial fusion has the potential to deliver nearly unlimited energy by replicating the physics that powers the sun.

The global race for commercial nuclear fusion is accelerating, with the United States and China pulling ahead through major ...

From the world’s first in-reactor thorium breeding confirmation to a dual PWR-HTGR plant and commercial supercritical CO₂ ...

Clean energy from nuclear fusion may soon be commercial. But leaders around the world have done little to prepare.

China's nuclear fusion reactor, dubbed the "artificial sun," has breached a major fusion limit by firing plasma beyond its usual operational range, advancing humanity's slow progress towards ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The plasma density barrier is a mathematical limit to the density of plasma that can exist in a tokamak before destabilizing. A new study led by a ...

Governments and private developers worldwide are accelerating nuclear fusion research amid technical breakthroughs that could bring commercial-scale, clean energy closer to reality.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (East) reactor achieved plasma density levels 'far exceeding empirical ...

Mehr explores the innovative technology of China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak, and its implications for energy generation.

Beijing has embarked on a Manhattan Project-like effort to develop a more fearsome nuclear arsenal.