Five independent teams of researchers have reviewed the work and claims made by a group at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) who announced in December 2022 that they had achieved the first ...

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

Fusion energy commercialization is now blocked not by plasma physics but by two missing engineering facilities: a neutron ...

Quantum field theories are powerful tools for particle physics and condensed matter physics but are rarely used in plasma physics. However, in warm-dense regimes, where matter is partially ionized and ...

Three purpose-built instruments — Alpha-E Plasma, Alpha-E Prime, and Alpha-E Pro — bring real fusion and plasma experimentation into university teaching labs and research programmes at price points ...

Fusion energy has the potential to be an effective clean energy source, as its reactions generate incredibly large amounts of energy. Fusion reactors aim to reproduce on Earth what happens in the core ...