Princeton University spinout Thea Energy has secured a $20 million award from the US ...

Replicating fusion, the power source of the stars, here on Earth has been a great challenge ever since the first experiments took place in the 1950s. Today, scientists and engineers continue to make ...

The United States is set to accelerate the design of stellarator devices for fusion energy projects. The Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory plans to use AI to fast-track these ...

PRINCETON, N.J., June 01, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Princeton Stellarators (PSI), a fusion energy company advancing stellarator technology for commercialization, today announced the U.S. Department of ...

Like engineers who design high-performance Formula One race cars, scientists want to create high-performance plasmas in twisty fusion systems known as stellarators. Achieving this performance means ...

A France-based company is using stellarator technology to accelerate fusion research in Europe. Renaissance Fusion is building stellarators that it claims could be the most efficient, steady, and ...

The first fusion reactions in a laboratory were achieved in 1934 — a major breakthrough at the time. Today, however, achieving a fusion reaction is not particularly difficult: in 2018, a ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics in Germany have devised a new method for minimizing turbulence ...

When it comes to nuclear fusion, the most well-known reactor type today is no doubt the tokamak, due to its relatively straight-forward concept of plasma containment. That’s not to say that there aren ...

When Germany's Wendelstein 7-X fusion facility set a world record for stellarators recently, a finely tuned instrument proved the achievement. The record strongly suggests that the design of the ...