Developed over 70 years ago, the stellarator has long been ignored in favor of options like tokamak reactors. It might be time for its 'quasiaxisymmetry' to shine. By Andrew Paul Published Apr 5, 2024 ...

Proxima's "dumb machine" will be a stellarator called Alpha. It will draw on decades of work done by Germany's Max Planck ...

For decades, nuclear fusion—the reaction that powers the sun—has been the ultimate energy dream. If harnessed on Earth, it could provide endless, carbon-free power. But the challenge is huge. Fusion ...

Three companies from opposite sides of the Atlantic have joined forces to build what would be the United Kingdom’s first ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A France-based company is using stellarator technology to accelerate fusion research in Europe. Renaissance Fusion is building ...

The Wendelstein 7-X stellarator in Germany has broken the record for plasma duration in a nuclear fusion reactor. Fusion reactions were sustained at high performance levels for 43 seconds, which is a ...

Munich-based Proxima Fusion and its partners have published a new peer-reviewed paper presenting Stellaris, the world's first integrated concept for a commercial fusion power plant designed to operate ...

The first fusion reactions in a laboratory were achieved in 1934 — a major breakthrough at the time. Today, however, achieving a fusion reaction is not particularly difficult: in 2018, a ...