Clean energy from nuclear fusion may soon be commercial. But leaders around the world have done little to prepare.

The stakes of the “race to fusion” are dramatic. Commercial fusion has the potential to deliver nearly unlimited energy by ...

A UK firm has announced a world-first set of “super” magnets that can be used for testing nuclear fusion power plants. Tokamak Energy said the Demo4 magnet has a magnetic field strength that is nearly ...

Proxima Fusion, spun out of Germany’s Max Planck Institute (the team behind the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator), raised a record €130 million in 2025, later extended to €200 million. It’s fast emerging ...

The U.S. government has launched the process to develop a regulatory framework to develop fusion machines as emerging nuclear ...

Nuclear fusion has long promised virtually limitless low carbon power, but the machines that might deliver it are notoriously hard to build and even harder to fix. A new generation of “plug and socket ...

About 60 years ago, Russian physicist Lev Artsimovich said nuclear fusion “will be ready when society needs it”. The UK has achieved a “major breakthrough for fusion energy research”, the UK Atomic ...

Fusion energy, an emerging technology that backers hope will one day generate electricity without producing long-lived ...

Workers monitor the Kazakhstan tokamak for material testing, a circular machine in a large white room. The Kazakhstan tokamak for material testing generated its first plasma in 2019. Credit: National ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, scientists have dreamed of unlocking the power of the stars—a clean, limitless energy source that could end our ...

Proxima Fusion, Europe's fastest-growing fusion energy company, has signed an agreement with the Free State of Bavaria, RWE, and Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) to put the world's first ...

The world’s most powerful magnet is being shipped to France for installation in the core of ITER, the experimental fusion reactor. It is hoped that ITER will prove the feasibility of creating fusion ...