A new class of advanced steel, designed to withstand the extreme conditions inside a fusion energy reactor, needs further development after tests showed it swells under high radiation levels. The ...

In August 2023, CHSN01 steel was confirmed to meet key standards, handling 20 Tesla magnetic fields and withstanding 1,300 MPa stress with high fatigue resistance. CHSN01 is now used in China’s BEST ...

Helion Energy announced that it has broken ground in Central Washington on what it hopes will be the world's first commercial ...

ITER engineers expect their tokamak reactor to generate 500 megawatts (Mw) of fusion power using just 50 Mw of input heating–compared with a nuclear fission reactor ’s roughly 1,000 Mw of ...

A startup in Israel is developing a nuclear reactor no bigger than a desktop computer. Having proved that the breakthrough technology works, Metatron N.R.G. now aims to build a fully functioning ...

Google Bets Big on Nuclear Fusion By Felicity Bradstock - Jul 05, 2025, 12:00 PM CDT ...

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 ...

Chemistry Nuclear fusion fuel could be made greener with new chemical process Lithium-6 is a crucial material for nuclear fusion reactors, but isolating it is challenging – now researchers have ...

Nuclear fusion, a reaction that powers stars such as our sun, generates energy by fusing atoms together. In fusion reactors, those atoms are deuterium (a heavy form of hydrogen that is abundant in ...

Engineer in a nuclear fusion reactor research factory. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced in June that it is moving forward to advance new uses of factory-built microreactors by ...

Science Physics Particle Physics New nuclear fusion reactor’s electromagnet could lift 10 monster trucks ITER’s final component is ready for installation. Andrew Paul May 5, 2025 11:22 AM EDT ...