Engineers and physicists have met to discuss the challenges and opportunities of building a practical fusion power plant in the UK
Read article: UK reveals next STEPs toward prototype fusion power plant
Guy Matthews says that the focus on public relations is masking the challenges of commercializing nuclear fusion
Read article: Fusion’s public-relations drive is obscuring the challenges that lie ahead
The Flexible Stellarator Physics Facility would test different approaches to stellarator magnetic confinement
Read article: US plasma physicists propose construction of a ‘flexible’ stellarator facility
In this podcast we chat about small-scale fusion and a familiar yet mysterious force
Read article: Zap Energy targets fusion power without magnets, Claudia de Rham on the beauty of gravity
Full operation with deuterium and tritium is not expected until 2039
Read article: ITER fusion reactor hit by massive decade-long delay and €5bn price hike
Fusion still has many issues to iron out before it can become a viable energy source, as John Evans explains
Read article: The fusion industry must rise to its tritium challenge
The improvements will allow researchers to better control and study fusion plasmas
Read article: US DIII-D National Fusion Facility resumes operations following series of upgrades
Tokamaks like ITER could benefit from computer modelling results
Read article: Magnetic islands stabilize fusion plasma, simulations suggest
Extensive research confirms material’s ability to create compact yet powerful fields
Read article: REBCO high-temperature superconductors are ideal for tokamak magnets, study suggests
Ambrogio Fasoli, head of EUROfusion, tells Senne Starckx that Europe must ramp up its efforts towards demonstrating commercial fusion
Read article: Ambrogio Fasoli: new European fusion boss wants a demonstration fusion plant
