Researchers were unsure whether alpha particles would aid or hinder fusion. Simulations suggest they help, by dampening ...

The exhaust heat generated by a fusing plasma in a commercial-scale reactor may not be as damaging to the vessel's innards as once thought, according to new research about escaping plasma particles.

The development of sustainable energy sources that can satisfy the world energy demand is one of the most challenging scientific problems. Nuclear fusion, the energy source of stars, is a clean and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinese scientists have unveiled a superconducting linear plasma device designed to test materials for nuclear fusion reactors.

Plasma, the fourth state of matter, consists of a gas in which electrons are no longer bound to atoms, which allows electricity to flow freely. When beams of particles moving close to the speed of ...

Scientists have made discoveries about light particles known as photons that could aid the quest for fusion energy. Both literally and figuratively, light pervades the world. It banishes darkness, ...

A successful development of thermonuclear fusion reactors based on the Tokamak concept such as ITER or next generation device DEMO is basically impossible without a robust solution to suppress or ...

Manufacturing transistors that combine silicon with transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) requires an extremely precise ...

The near-Earth space environment is populated by the most energetic electrons with velocities very close to the speed of light, reaching ultra-relativistic energies. These electrons present a serious ...

You can now see how nuclear fusion takes place in a doughnut-shaped receptacle called a tokamak, thanks to a new 3D visualization by the École Spéciale de Lausanne. Nuclear fusion is the reaction that ...

3D spatial tomography estimates the 3D structure of a subject from images taken from multiple directions. On the other hand, newly developed phase-space tomography estimates the plasma phase-space ...

3D visualization of an ELM in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamk as simulated with the MEGA code. The tokamak volue is colored according to the ELM structure. TheELM interacts with the energetic particle whose ...