The 'dumb machine' promising a clean energy breakthrough

Proxima's "dumb machine" will be a stellarator called Alpha. It will draw on decades of work done by Germany's Max Planck ...
NextBigFuture

First Light Fusion Makes Progress Towards an Economical Working Fusion Reactor

First Light Fusion is developing an inertial fusion with a pulsed process. They fire physical projectiles at high speeds like 40 kilometers per second to generate fusion OR they may use high-power ...
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Thunderbird reactor: New room-temperature fusion reactor that fits on a tabletop

Nuclear fusion usually brings to mind sprawling facilities, blistering temperatures, and machines built on a scale that can swallow budgets whole. This device does something stranger. It sits on a lab ...
Yahoo

Homemade fusion reactor built by a 12-year-old draws national attention

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 12-year-old Dallas student built a working fusion device at home and is seeking a Guinness World Record. (CREDIT: NBC5 News) “We ...
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Fusion reactors might create dark matter axions, and that’s wild

Fusion power has long been sold as the technology that could light our cities with the same process that powers the stars. Now a new line of research suggests those same reactors might also be ...
Sentinel & Enterprise

Tapping energy that ‘powers the stars’

DEVENS — If harnessed properly, experts in the field say fusion could be the key to an unlimited, environmentally-friendly energy source for the world. And one of the companies working to harness this ...
Houston Public Media

Companies say they're closing in on nuclear fusion as an energy source. Will it work?

Inside a warehouse in Everett, Wash., the commercial fusion company Helion is building a next-generation device that it believes can revolutionize the electricity business. (Geoff Brumfiel | NPR) In a ...
AOL

Nuclear fusion advances, but challenges remain for power grid

Nuclear fusion originates in our sun and other stars. Immense pressure and high temperatures in the core create a reaction, ultimately preventing it from collapsing under the force of gravity. "The ...
EurekAlert!

Fusion research facility JET’s final tritium experiments yield new energy record

The Joint European Torus (JET), one of the world’s largest and most powerful fusion machines, has demonstrated the ability to reliably generate fusion energy, whilst simultaneously setting a ...
WFAE

Companies say they're closing in on nuclear fusion as an energy source. Will it work?

In a gleaming warehouse complex north of Seattle, David Kirtley is building what he hopes will be the future of power generation. Standing in front of a set of aluminum coils that look like an ...
OPB

Companies say they’re closing in on nuclear fusion as an energy source. Will it work?

In a gleaming warehouse complex north of Seattle, David Kirtley is building what he hopes will be the future of power generation. Standing in front of a set of aluminum coils that look like an ...