Interesting Engineering on MSN

Award-winning US code maps how neutrons, photons move through nuclear fusion reactors

A powerful, open-source software package named OpenMC has emerged as a cornerstone in the global effort to develop the next ...
Live Science on MSN

China's 'artificial sun' reactor shatters major fusion limit — a step closer to near-limitless clean energy

China's EAST nuclear fusion reactor has successfully kept plasma stable at extreme densities, passing a major fusion ...
ZME Science on MSN

China’s “Artificial Sun” Just Smashed a Key Fusion Barrier and Physics May Never Be the Same

But on January 1, researchers working on China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) — often dubbed the ...
Morning Overview on MSN

China’s fusion reactor smashed an ‘unbreakable’ limit and rewrote physics

China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak, better known as the country’s “artificial sun,” has just done ...
Nature

Chinese nuclear fusion reactor pushes plasma past crucial limit: what happens next

China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) is a nuclear-fusion research reactor in Hefei. Researchers hope ...

How Commonwealth Fusion Systems is designing its first fusion reactor

AI factories and data centers require gigawatts of electric power,” said Siemens CEO Roland Busch today at CES 2026. “What if ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems installs reactor magnet, lands deal with Nvidia

The fusion power frontrunner said that construction on its Sparc reactor was proceeding as planned. Meanwhile, it's building ...
Science Daily

China’s “artificial sun” just broke a fusion limit scientists thought was unbreakable

Researchers using China’s “artificial sun” fusion reactor have broken through a long-standing density barrier in fusion ...
Observer

Nuclear Fusion Energy’s Long Promised Future Starts to Look Commercially Real

Fusion energy startups are drawing billions as rising A.I.-driven power demand pushes the technology closer to commercial ...

China’s EAST fusion reactor beats density limit, widens path to power

China’s EAST fusion reactor surpasses density limits, paving the way for advancements in sustainable fusion energy production ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

US energy company installs first fusion magnet, nears clean power breakthrough

Commonwealth Fusion Systems installs first of 18 massive magnets in Sparc fusion reactor at CES 2026, aiming to activate it ...
Lewiston Tribune

Nuclear power ventures heat up around Washington

Washington spent much of the 1970s trying to become a center for nuclear power, with plans for five huge fission reactors at Richland and Satsop. Then came cost overruns, construction problems, and ...