Inertial Confinement Fusion

A private startup called Helion thinks it can build a fusion reactor and start supplying energy by 2028.

Even once researchers can reliably get more power out of a fusion reaction than they put in, they'll still need to overcome engineering challenges to scale up fusion energy.

Mayonnaise continues to help researchers better understand the physics behind nuclear fusion.

We've been 'close' to achieving fusion power for 50 years. When will it actually happen?

The German government has announced draft plans to boost domestic research into development of nuclear fusion but left open how those efforts will be funded. Some hope the technology will provide abundant clean energy in the future. The science minister said Thursday that under the proposal, Germany will support all promising fusion technologies now being developed, including laser-based methods that achieved…

The German government announced draft plans Thursday to boost domestic research into development of nuclear fusion, a technology some hope will provide...

Is fusion really the energy of the future? Michael Fumento explores some of the many false starts in the development of controlled nuclear fusion and considers its current prospects, including inertial and magnetic confinement, inertial electrostatic confinement, and compact reactors.

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U.S. nuclear energy company Helion said Wednesday it reached an agreement to provide Microsoft with energy derived from fusion, the first such deal of its kind.

Researchers in the US have finally fulfilled an objective that was set decades ago: the achievement of "ignition"—getting more energy out than you put in—using nuclear fusion.

The National Ignition Facility achieves ignition in a fusion reactor.

National Ignition Facility achieves net energy "gain" with laser-powered approach

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists announced Tuesday that they have for the first time...

It's now just decades away, experts say.

The National Ignition Facility has achieved net energy gain in a fusion reactor for the first time.

A controlled fusion reaction has generated more energy than was put into the system for the first time, bringing viable fusion power another step closer to reality

A fusion reactor at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory may have reached a critical milestone.

Scientists around the world have been studying nuclear fusion for decades, hoping to create a limitless, carbon-free source of energy.

But it doesn't mean we've reached the "holy grail" yet.

Net energy gain indicates technology could provide an abundant zero-carbon alternative to fossil fuels