The new material could be key to finally building a successful fusion reactor.

"Most advanced of its kind in the world." Scientists make progress on ultra-futuristic device that could generate virtually ...

Now, a new and compact fusion reactor in Spain—the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak, or SMART—is further experimenting with negative triangularity at the Plasma Science and Fusion Technology Laboratory of ...

On Earth, a plasma would normally interact with its surroundings, losing energy to them and cooling down, even if it didn’t melt the walls. To avoid this, tokamaks use powerful magnetic fields ...

A new AI-driven approach to tokamak plasma control offers an improved route to commercial fusion technology. Next Step Fusion ...

spherical tokamaks, negative triangularity and high magnetic field. This first solenoid-induced plasma represents a major achievement for the SMART project, as well as for progress towards the most ...

The magnetic forces constantly spin the particles around their doughnut-shaped reactor chambers to prevent them from escaping the plasma. As stellarator configurations are challenging to build, most ...

On 12 February, the CEA’s WEST machine was able to maintain a plasma for more than 22 minutes. In doing so, it smashed the ...

to study various field configurations and the effect this has on plasma stability, along with a range of other parameters. Along with UK’s JET, China’s HL-2M and a range of other tokamaks at ...

To create conditions similar to those on stars, scientists use tokamaks, donut-shaped devices to contain the plasma, a superheated state of matter, where atoms are stripped off of their electrons ...