A critical shortage of fuel for nuclear fusion reactors may have a rather counterintuitive solution. A physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) says that fusion reactor fuel could be ...

Uranium is one of the main elements used in the current reactors, with a hazardous radioactive by-product which will remain, ...

A decades-old scientific controversy and a small bench-top apparatus at the University of British Columbia (UBC) could be the key to more efficient fusion reactors by increasing the chances of a ...

Scientists say they’ve developed a way to salvage nuclear waste from fission reactors — and turn it into a potent fuel for fusion reactors instead. As Gizmodo reports, it’s an exciting prospect that ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Nuclear Frontier, a new feature documentary narrated by actor Boyd Holbrook (Narcos, Logan), premieres tonight to a capacity crowd at the John F. Kennedy Center for ...

Booth is a reporter at TIME. Booth is a reporter at TIME. When Sam Altman arrived at Helion Energy’s small Redmond, Wash., office in early 2014, nuclear-fusion textbooks tucked under his arm, the ...

The footage offers an unprecedentedly colorful look at the extreme physics at play—revealing valuable information for researchers studying fusion. Reading time 2 minutes Nuclear fusion may always be ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – The Healey administration last week launched a four-month effort to chart a course for further exploration of advanced nuclear and fusion energy technologies for both power generation ...

Nuclear fusion, the process whereby atomic nuclei coalesce to form a heavier nucleus, lies at the heart of both energy generation and the synthesis of elements in the cosmos. In recent decades, ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems faces a litany of challenges, from complex physics and difficult engineering to building a supply chain. But it’s also trying to solve one of the fusion industry’s biggest ...