TAE Technologies' latest experiments demonstrate significant improvements in fusion reactor performance and efficiency using ...

A hydrogen bomb—thermonuclear by design—that doesn’t require uranium or plutonium; such a weapon of mass destruction could ...

Japan is getting ready to make history by becoming the first country to use nuclear reactor heat for large-scale hydrogen ...

The fusion reaction uses smaller elements, like hydrogen, and fuses them together ... but less so than the current nuclear reactors, which have to be sited near bodies of water and require ...

Chinese scientists have refuelled an experimental thorium-fueled molten salt reactor continuously without shutting it down.

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed the successful refueling of an operational Thorium-powered nuclear reactor.

Fusion technologies are rapidly moving up the performance curve as world records tumble. The road to commercialisation is ...

The company’s ambitious new Sunbird design aims to harness nuclear fusion in space, despite the fact that commercializing ...

SAN FRANCISCO--A start-up that a Nobel laureate co-founded plans to commercialize a nuclear fusion reactor using laser technology by around 2030. Shuji Nakamura, co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel ...