A a view from inside the OMEGA target chamber during a direct-drive inertial fusion experiment at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics. Scientists fired 28 kilojoules of laser ...

Welcome to Faster, Please! — The Podcast. Several times a month, host Jim Pethokoukis will feature a lively conversation with a fascinating and provocative guest about how to make the world a better ...

Physicists are teasing a potential leap in nuclear fusion that sounds almost absurd on its face: a path to reactions that are “billion times” more efficient by swapping today’s ultra-short, ...

Nuclear fusion power has long been “50 years away”, but the tide may be turning. In the shadow of major government projects ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Xcimer Energy announced that it is participating in three fusion energy “hubs” that were awarded funding by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today, through ...

If climate change is an 'existential threat to human existence,' as President Biden suggests, nuclear power may have to be part of the transition from fossil fuels. The Bill Gates-backed TerraPower ...

The Memorandum of Understanding was signed in Rome during a two-day international discussion on innovation and the role of research and technology transfer in the energy transition. ROME, ITALY / ...

Focused Energy, the company pursuing what it calls "the most proven path to commercially viable fusion", has announced plans to site a laser development facility in the San Francisco Bay Area. The ...