Plasma physics is the study of a state of matter comprising charged particles. Plasmas are usually created by heating a gas until the electrons become detached from their parent atom or molecule. This ...

Scientists testing China’s trillion-dollar ‘artificial sun’ have underlined its potential to advance nuclear fusion, ...

Scientists pursuing magnetically-confined nuclear fusion as a clean energy source grapple with the "core-edge challenge," the need to integrate the core of the reactor, where plasma must be 10 times ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is providing $134 million in funding for two programs designed to secure U.S. leadership ...

The need for an intense source of coherent, millimetre-wavelength radiation to heat a fusion plasma and control its instabilities represents a significant challenge in the development of the ITER ...

Shaped by input from more than 1,000 members of its community, the plan reflects shared vision and values, organized around ...

In a step toward making ultra-bright X-ray sources more widely available, an international collaboration led by the ...

ORNL is the lead partner on three research collaborations with private fusion companies in the 2025 cohort of the Innovation ...

The U.S. DOE has announced $134 million in funding to accelerate the development of fusion energy technologies ...