WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Scientists and companies have been trying for decades to harness fusion energy, the process that fires the sun, to generate electricity on Earth. A $6 billion deal ...

It’s rarely appreciated just how much more complicated nuclear fusion is than nuclear fission. Whereas the latter involves a process that happens all around us without any human involvement, and where ...

Fusion energy is having a moment. Last week, Commonwealth Fusion Energy Systems, which is backed by Google, announced it had raised nearly $3 billion in capital and would start developing a fusion ...

What if the key to solving the world’s energy crisis was hidden in a process so ambitious, so technically demanding, that even experts once dismissed it as science fiction? For decades, nuclear fusion ...

A nuclear fusion breakthrough has always been 30-odd years away, but not anymore. The race for commercialization is on. Today, 53 fusion energy companies worldwide are competing to be the first to ...

In an unassuming industrial park 30 miles outside Boston, engineers are building a futuristic machine to replicate the energy of the stars. If all goes to plan, it could be the key to producing ...

For long-time followers of fusion energy, Tokamak Hall is the high-water mark after decades of ups and downs. From an observation deck on the side, the surgically-clean, hospital-white room feels both ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Scientists and companies have been trying for decades to harness fusion energy, the process that fires the sun, to generate electricity on Earth. Fusion energy, the ...