ITER is an international collaborative project aimed at building the world’s largest magnetic fusion device, designed to ...

The tokamak principle will be the foundation for a future reactor in the international project, ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor). It is supposed to become the world’s very ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday visited the International Thermonuclear ...

The Chinese state news agency Xinhua described the accomplishment as "a key step towards the development of a fusion reactor." ...

A tokamak is an artificial sun system in the ... The startup process requires a strong electric field, similar to the principle of lightning, but this electric field also leads to the generation ...

In a pioneering approach to achieve fusion energy, the SMART device has successfully generated its first tokamak plasma. This step brings the international fusion community closer to achieving ...

Hot stuff The first plasma at the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak. (Courtesy: University of Seville) A novel fusion device based at the University of Seville in Spain has achieved its first plasma. The ...

China's "artificial sun"—formally known as the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), and based in Hefei—maintained steady-state, high-confinement plasma operation for 17 ...

The Globus-M2 spherical tokamak that Bakharev his team are working on may be an important first step towards this goal. Tokamaks confine plasma – a hot, ionized gas – using magnetic fields ...

A joint research team from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has successfully developed a continuous cryogenic pellet injection system for tokamak fueling.

Japan’s JT-60SA fusion reactor project announced first plasma in October of this year to denote the successful upgrades to what is now the world’s largest operational, superconducting tokamak ...

First tokamak plasma at the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak – SMART – recorded with a fast-framing camera in the visible spectral range. In a pioneering approach to achieve fusion energy ...