France has upped the ante in the quest for fusion power by maintaining a plasma reaction for over 22 minutes – a new record.

ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) is a multinational fusion project in France aiming to prove that ...

CSA's nuclear fusion reactor, WEST, is a tokamak type reactor that uses electromagnets to generate a strong magnetic field around the plasma, confining it at a high temperature. CSA announced on ...

A world record for nuclear fusion has been smashed after an 'artificial sun' reactor was able to maintain a plasma for more ...

There are different reactor designs to achieve nuclear fusion by meeting these conditions. One set of designs involves the use of a tokamak — a donut-shaped vessel where the nuclei are confined ...

France has taken a major leap forward in the race for nuclear fusion energy, achieving a new world record for plasma duration ...

This was more than 25 percent higher than the recently set record in China: At the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) fusion reactor, plasma with a temperature of over 100 ...

1,337 seconds: that was how long WEST, a tokamak ... fusion power of 15 MW for several seconds. France, home to both WEST and ITER, is well-placed to house the first prototype nuclear fusion reactor.

This hot, electrically charged gas easily becomes unstable, which can lead to lost energy and limit the efficiency of a possible future nuclear fusion reactor. The WEST tokamak machine in southern ...