Helion's unorthodox approach to fusion power and relative secrecy has earned it plenty of fans — and critics. But don’t count ...

Building a working nuclear fusion reactor has proven to be a daunting challenge even for multiple wealthy nations, as we've ...

Helion secures funding to accelerate the development of its commercial-scale fusion power plant, aiming to deliver ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - China appears to be building a large laser-ignited fusion research centre in the southwestern city of Mianyang, experts at two analytical organisations say, a development that ...

Magnetic confinement fusion Magnetic confinement fusion is based on the fact that ions and electrons cannot easily travel across a magnetic field. Therefore, hot plasma can be confined by strong ...

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) in the US is a prominent example of an ICF reactor. 4. Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF): ...

Building a fusion reactor Fusion occurs when two types of hydrogen atoms ... There are two approaches to achieving fusion in the lab: inertial confinement fusion, which uses powerful lasers, and ...

To reach there, we need to first succeed in getting more energy out of a nuclear fusion reactor than we put in. Humanity made some progress in this ... NIF refers to this approach as inertial ...