Ever since nuclear fusion was first discovered in the 1930s, scientists have imagined ways to harness its energy. The earliest designs for nuclear fusion reactors began in earnest in the 1950s, with ...

U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham announced last Thursday at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory that President Bush has decided the United States will enter negotiations to determine its ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A much-delayed nuclear fusion project involving more than 30 countries is ready to assemble the world's most powerful magnet - a key part of efforts to generate clean energy by ...

Scientists have long pursued nuclear fusion as a near-limitless energy source. Fusion reactions, the same process powering ...

ITER, the largest testing bed for nuclear fusion on Earth, could prove the viability of the power source—if it ever turns on. Reading time 3 minutes It took 20 years, but the design and delivery of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Once upon a time in the 1970s, Washington state was poised to be a major player in the nuclear power sector, ...

China and the U.S. are in a race to create the first grid-scale nuclear fusion energy. After decades of U.S. leadership, China is catching up by spending twice as much and building projects at record ...

ORNL is the lead partner on three research collaborations with private fusion companies in the 2025 cohort of the Innovation Network for Fusion Energy program. The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge ...