Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists in China have made a new system for fueling the tokamak device. The continuous cryogenic pellet injection system ...

As the Sun and stars themselves can attest, nuclear fusion could be an essentially unlimited energy source, if we can only harness it. The problem is that the plasma used is inherently unstable, and ...

ITER’s success will depend in part on subduing potential plasma instabilities. This ORNL team is tackling the challenge with shattered pellet injection. A team of experts at Oak Ridge National ...

Fort Lauderdale, Fla.--Fusion is a non-carbon-based process for energy production, where lighter atoms fuse into heavier ones. Fusion reactors operate by confining a "soup" of charged particles, known ...

Injecting pellets of hydrogen ice rather than puffing hydrogen gas improves fusion performance. Studies by physicists compared the two methods on the DIII-D National Fusion Facility, looking ahead to ...

Researchers have 'chilled out' unwanted hot spots inside a plasma fusion vessel by injecting pellets of frozen neon and deuterium straight into the hot plasma. A shot of icy chemical cocktail -- ...

The quest for sustainable fusion energy relies heavily on maintaining stable tokamak plasmas despite the inherent risk of sudden disruptions. These disruptions involve rapid losses of thermal energy, ...