Magnets | Smallest poloidal field coil ready for shipment

The smallest of ITER's six ring-shaped poloidal field coils has passed all factory acceptance tests in Russia. The next step is shipment to the ITER site.&nbsp[...]

Vacuum vessel | Welcoming a third sector from Korea

Fusion is about harnessing Nature's most powerful energy source: the fabulous forces that are liberated when two light atoms merge into a heavier one. The [...]

Fusion world | EAST demonstrates 1000-second steady-state plasma

China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) has made an important advance by achieving stable 1056-second steady-state high-temperature plasma[...]

Nuclear fusion: Inside the construction of the world’s largest tokamak

How close are we to achieving reliable nuclear fusion? The ITER experiment in France aims to bring the process closer to reality.

Fusion world | US launches 'bold decadal vision' for fusion energy

"Moonshot." "Bold vision." "Game-changing innovation." "The race is on." Such was the vocabulary, and the mood, of the [...]

US Senator Manchin visits ITER | 'Today I saw the possibility of world peace'

'We cannot 'eliminate our way' to net zero. We have to innovate, not eliminate our way to carbon neutrality.' With this observation, United States Senator Joe [...]

Cryostat completion | An exceptional, yearslong industrial adventure

It's a long way from Hazira, on the northwestern coast of India, to the ITER construction site in southern France. And it's also a long way from the first segm[...]

White House summit brings national energy leaders together to forge a path to accelerate fusion electricity

Steve Cowley, PPPL director, joined climate and energy experts from national laboratories, universities, private industry, government agencies, and congressional representatives gathered together on March 17 at the White House summit, “Developing...

To Help Tackle Climate Crisis, White House Touts Nuclear Fusion

Gina McCarthy and other administration officials showcased fusion energy in a bid to accelerate vast amounts of carbon-free power

Fusion nucléaire : l'administration Biden dévoile de nouveaux efforts

Le gouvernement fédéral vient d'annoncer de nouvelles aides visant au développement de la fusion nucléaire.

Fusion tech is set to unlock near-limitless ultra-deep geothermal energy

MIT spin-off Quaise says it's going to use hijacked fusion technology to drill the deepest holes in history, unlocking clean, virtually limitless, supercritical geothermal energy that can re-power fossil-fueled power plants all over the world.

Image of the week | Designed for a strong embrace

Contrary to most components, the 110-tonne central solenoid modules cannot be equipped with lifting rings—drilling into the module is impossible and there is n[...]

Utilities | Directly from producer to consumer

When fully operational, ITER will be like a large living being with fluids rushing through kilometres of veins and arteries to organs located throughout the in[...]