The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is nearly 40 years in the making, and its most complex component ...

In an unassuming industrial park 30 miles outside Boston, engineers are building a futuristic machine to replicate the energy ...

Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Type One Energy Group in the US have ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. 1. Fusion reactions occur naturally in stars like our sun, where hydrogen nuclei fuse together under high ...

A team of fusion researchers at TAE Technologies, Inc., in the U.S., working with colleagues from the University of ...

TAE Technologies claims its setup produces 100 times the power of other designs at half the cost, but the road to commercial fusion is littered with hype.

1. Fusion reactions occur naturally in stars like our sun, where hydrogen nuclei fuse together under high temperatures and pressure to form helium nuclei. Energy is released as electromagnetic ...