James McKenzie applauds recent record investments in commercial fusion power plants, which could help us to create a net-zero economy
Read article: Could commercial fusion power plants get us to net zero?
Analogy might help physicists operate fusion reactors in the steady state
Read article: Stellarator plasma oscillations resemble struggle between predator and prey
Reward-based system controls the rapidly changing magnetic fields in a tokamak
Read article: AI keeps fusion plasma in check
Experiment achieves 59 megajoules of fusion energy in a single fusion “shot”, doubling the previous record
Read article: Fusion energy record smashed by Joint European Torus facility
Study suggests that kilonova events are more effective at r-process nucleosynthesis
Read article: Merging neutron stars create more gold than collisions involving black holes
First report on the state of the fusion industry finds companies have accrued almost £2bn of investment in fusion energy
Read article: Fusion industry predicts electricity generation by the 2030s
Five sites have been shortlisted as a potential home for the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production
Read article: UK announces potential sites for prototype fusion energy plant
In this podcast we chat about the latest science superpower and magnets for tokamaks
Read article: Why fusion power could rely on high-temperature superconductors, China’s ambitious exploration of space
Lab announces it has achieved a yield of more than 1.3 MJ – about 70% of the energy that the laser pulse delivered to the sample
Read article: National Ignition Facility heralds ‘significant step’ towards fusion break-even target
After COVID made crowded control rooms hazardous, Ben Penaflor and colleagues at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility developed work-arounds
Read article: Physics in the pandemic: ‘We’ve been surprised at how easy it’s become to do high-level experiments from our homes’
