Reactors designed to produce energy from the fusion of atoms could have an unexpected scientific side benefit.

It’s rarely appreciated just how much more complicated nuclear fusion is than nuclear fission. Whereas the latter involves a process that happens all around us without any human involvement, and where ...

As one of the Devens Enterprise Zone’s largest and arguably most energized tenants, Commonwealth Fusion Systems remains on its ambitious path to become the first commercial producer of energy ...

Nuclear fusion is the process that powers the sun and other stars through the combination of two hydrogen atoms into one helium atom. In that process, part of the mass of the hydrogen is converted to ...

A team at the Colorado School of Mines is working to create hydrogen membranes for use in nuclear fusion power plants. The project, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects ...

The US Department of Energy announced Tuesday that scientists at a national lab — for the first time ever — have generated more energy from nuclear fusion than the process took to start. Fusion, which ...

Last week, the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory made nuclear fusion history. At 1 a.m. Pacific on December 5, scientists fired the world’s most energetic lasers to ...