Housed at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), Aurora is among the three fastest computers in the world, capable of performing a quintillion calculations per second. That exascale power ...

The U.S. government has launched the process to develop a regulatory framework to develop fusion machines as emerging nuclear ...

A new report sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recommends increased investment in America’s fusion diagnostic ...

Aurora, one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, is now being used to ...

A new DOE-sponsored report identifies fusion diagnostics as the "holy grail" for delivering commercial clean energy ...

Nuclear fusion holds the potential for clean, greenhouse gas-free baseload power, but challenges in controlling plasma have hindered its commercial viability. Recent breakthroughs, particularly with ...

Helion Energy says it has reached plasma temperatures of 150 million degrees Celsius, a milestone that has reignited debate ...

For most of the past 70 years, fusion energy has been shorthand for a promise that never quite arrived, a running joke about a technology that was always a few decades away. That timeline has shifted.

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Plasma physicist Debbie Callahan, chief strategy officer at Focused Energy, talks to Hamish Johnston about her work in laser fusion research ...

Once a government-led pursuit, nuclear fusion is now a private-capital race, much of it financed by the same people building AI.

In late 2022, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved a historic nuclear fusion breakthrough by creating a fusion reaction that produced more energy than the lasers used to create it.