Uranium is one of the main elements used in the current reactors, with a hazardous radioactive by-product which will remain, ...

Startups are still racing to build the world's first commercial fusion power plant on land, but Maritime Fusion thinks the ...

Technological breakthroughs from a new wave of private startups, including a major plasma pressure milestone by Zap Energy, ...

"It’s a big moment for us." US firm makes major breakthrough in effort to replicate sun's energy: 'This is a really exciting ...

Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have designed a new system that, when fully developed, would use fusion to eliminate most of the transuranic waste produced by nuclear power plants. The ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems faces a litany of challenges, from complex physics and difficult engineering to building a supply chain. But it’s also trying to solve one of the fusion industry’s biggest ...

The breakthrough scientific moment for fusion power—and the potential for nearly limitless electricity from a so-called star in a jar—came at the end of 2022 when scientists at Lawrence Livermore ...

Re “Should California financially contribute to the nuclear fusion industry?” ( Nov. 7 ): The correct answer is no. Instead, encourage nuclear fission power. The reason is that fission power exists.

Artificial intelligence has sent demand for electricity skyrocketing in the U.S. after years of virtually zero growth. That has sent Big Tech companies scrambling to secure generating capacity for ...

Every year, companies and space agencies launch hundreds of rockets into space—and that number is set to grow dramatically ...