Nuclear fusion

Frontier, the ambitious machine at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is no longer the most powerful supercomputer.

One of the biggest challenges posed by nuclear fusion is, as it happens, a materials engineering issue.

The Palisades nuclear plant along Lake Michigan ceased operations in 2022. The plant opened in 1971, so it was active for 51 years.

As it turns out, mayonnaise has the exact suitable properties needed to help scientists understand plasma dynamics.

Europe and Japan have been collaborating in this field of research since 2007 through the International Fusion Energy Research Center.

The world's most powerful projectile can now produce nuclear fusion.

WHAM, a compact device, might enable low-cost nuclear fusion.

The international project had aimed to produce the first plasma in 2025, but it’s now scheduled for 2033.

Initially, the ITER project was scheduled to start plasma experiments in 2025.