A stock image shows the surface of the sun. Nuclear fusion requires temperatures of 27 million degrees F, which occurs at the sun's core. iStock / Getty Images Plus ...

The INL-led center, Accelerating Fusion Blanket Development through Nuclear Testing (BNT), involves five national laboratories, four universities, and numerous private companies.

Fusion is the process that powers the sun and the stars. It's the opposite of nuclear fission, the process used in today's nuclear power plants, which splits atoms apart.

Nuclear fusion has the potential to completely change how we generate energy. And now, it looks like China’s “artificial sun” has managed to break yet another record, pushing the country one ...

Chinas HL-2M nuclear fusion device, known as the new generation of ‘artificial sun’, is displayed at a research laboratory in Chengdu, in eastern China’s Sichuan province on 4 December, 2020 ...

A world record for nuclear fusion has been smashed after an ‘artificial sun’ reactor was able to maintain a plasma for more than 22 minutes. The WEST reactor, in southern France, is at the ...

TAE Technologies, a nuclear fusion startup founded in California in 1998, is now a team of 400 people that recently raised $1.2 billion USD with hefty contributions from influential companies such ...

Most of the energy from the sun and other stars comes from a chain of nuclear fusion reactions. The end of this chain is marked by the fusion of protons with beryllium-7 to form boron-8.

Scientists in China have achieved an astounding breakthrough in the study of fusion power generation — bringing us one step closer to creating an infinite source of clean energy. Here comes the sun.

The Fusion Rocket Engine That's About to Be Hotter Than the Sun It could send humans to Mars in half the time. By Sascha Brodsky Published: Jul 07, 2023 12:28 PM EDT ...

KSTAR, KFE’s fusion research device which it refers to as an “artificial sun,” managed to sustain plasma with temperatures of 100 million degrees for 48 seconds during tests between December ...