For decades, nuclear fusion has been hailed as the holy grail of clean energy—a virtually limitless power source that could ...

Scientists sustained nuclear fusion plasma for 22 minutes, marking significant progress in sustainable clean energy research.

“Before the first stars exploded, there was no water in the Universe because there was no oxygen. Only very simple nuclei ...

But solar power is just fusion power that’s happening far away. Slam hydrogen nuclei together into helium and a bit of the original mass is converted into energy. In the core of the ...

Fusion. The new-style “fusion” of hydrogen and the old-style “fission” of uranium have a family resemblance. Both depend on the odd and unexplained fact that atomic nuclei do not weigh as ...

During the majority of a star’s lifetime, hydrogen nuclei fuse together to form helium nuclei. As the star runs out of hydrogen, other fusion reactions take place forming the nuclei of other ...

where plasma is held in a torus by an intense magnetic field and heated until the hydrogen nuclei fuse. Confinement fusion has been shown by JET to produce fusion power of 15 MW for several seconds.

At about this time, neutral atoms are formed as electrons link up with hydrogen and helium nuclei. The microwave background radiation hails from this moment, and thus gives us a direct picture of ...