France's WEST tokamak set a record by sustaining plasma for 1,337 seconds, surpassing China's EAST. This milestone marks ...

One set of designs involves the use of a tokamak — a donut-shaped vessel where the nuclei are confined, like in a cage, and made to fuse. Inside the vessel, a deuterium gas is exposed to about ...

France’s Commissariat à L'énergie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives on Tuesday claimed it’s topped China’s recently-established for record maintaining fusion plasma in a tokamak, and therefore ...

Devices that leverage quantum mechanics effects, broadly referred to as quantum technologies, could help to tackle some real-world problems faster and more efficiently. In recent years, physicists ...

Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have developed a method that makes objects on a magnetic field invisible within a particle stream. Until now, this so-called cloaking had only been ...

Starting from a desired functionality, inverse-design algorithms work backwards to find the best system or structure to achieve that functionality. “Inverse design has a lot of potential because all ...

The plasma inside the vacuum vessel is monitored in real-time by a vast array of magnetic sensors, thermocouples and accelerometers. Data, vital for machine operation, is transmitted by cables of the ...

Recently, we have been able to demonstrate that the laser beam is able to drive the accelerating structure, called a wakefield, over a distance greater than the length over which it would normally ...