Harnessing the power of the sun holds the promise of providing future societies with energy abundance. To make this a reality, fusion researchers need to address many technological challenges. For ...

It turns out that containing the same process that powers the sun can be turbulent work. Even microscale eddies in fusion plasma experiments can cause performance degradation, according to a release ...

Chinese scientists break a historic barrier and achieve the highest plasma density in a nuclear fusion reactor.

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory researchers have captured, for the first time, detailed images of ...

For decades, one of fusion energy’s hardest problems has been keeping superheated plasma from blasting holes in reactor walls. A United States team working on the DIII-D tokamak now reports using ...

The Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KFE) has begun its 2024 plasma experiments, aiming to secure advanced plasma operation technologies. This year’s experiments will focus on developing ...

PASADENA, Calif.–Applied physicists at the California Institute of Technology have devised a plasma experiment that shows how huge long, thin jets of material shoot out from exotic astrophysical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The central solenoid is the heart of a fusion reactor, and a "jacket" of meticulously crafted stainless steel—capable of ...

changes in the topology of the field by breaking and reconnecting the magnetic field lines. This process occurs in (magnetohydrodynamic) "sawtooth" oscillations in tokamak plasmas, in sun spots, and ...