fusion

Physicists from the US Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and General Atomics say injecting pellets into reactors could stop potentially damaging eruptions of plasma

Pulsar Fusion’s 10,000 square-foot facility aims to generate a plasma temperature hotter than the surface of the Sun

Assystem is developing a machine able to withstand large levels of heat and radiation to remove impurities from plasma and replace components

The University of Oxford-linked company’s Machine 3 has now been fully commissioned

The ‘artificial sun’ has become the hottest known nuclear fusion experiment on Earth, at 100 million degrees Celsius

First Light Fusion has fired the first test ‘shot’ of its inertial confinement fusion device

First Light Fusion aims to unlock the way to ‘safe, clean and virtually limitless energy’

The computer will perform more complex calculations per second than current devices to accelerate progress

The ‘Machine 3’ device will be capable of discharging up to 200,000 volts within two microseconds

An investment company set up to support scientists from Oxford University has bought a stake in an innovative nuclear power firm. Oxford Sciences Innovation (OSI) has invested in First Light Fusion, which is researching energy generation via inertial confinement fusion. Developers say the technology could produce vast amounts of electricity in a safe and clean […]