Manufactured by Hyundai Heavy Industries, this vacuum vessel sector will provide a high-vacuum environment for fusion plasma.

"It was also a way to convince people of my generation, my peers, to take on difficult projects, outside of their comfort ...

Can theory and computation methods help the search for the best divertor material and thus contribute to making fusion energy ...

It is difficult to disentangle Russian and Chinese scientists from international science cooperation. That is a good thing ...

Nuclear fusion could be an ideal solution to mankind's energy problem, guaranteeing a virtually limitless source of power ...

The NSTX-U is the primary nuclear fusion reactor experiment which is ongoing at the US Department of Energy's PPPL.

Fusion reactors ... the plasma-facing materials not only withstand extremely high temperatures, but are constantly bombarded ...

Can theory and computation methods help the search for the best divertor material and thus contribute to making fusion a reality? Scientists in Nicola Marzari’s MARVEL laboratory at EPFL decided to ...

"The impacts of neutrons on fusion reactor design haven't been a high priority for a long time," he says. "I felt that some initiative needed to be taken," and that prompted him to make the switch ...

Fusion researchers at the University of California San Diego received $1.35 million from DOE’s Advanced Research Projects ...

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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 ...