Fusion science and artificial intelligence leaders are raising renewed concerns over a widening STEM skills gap that could jeopardise the future of the energy and technology workforce. As governments ...

Fusion energy may be one of the most promising clean power sources of the future—but only if scientists can precisely measure the extreme, fast-moving plasmas that make it possible. A new U.S.

ORNL is the lead partner on three research collaborations with private fusion companies in the 2025 cohort of the Innovation Network for Fusion Energy program. The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge ...

To operate fusion systems safely and reliably, scientists need to monitor plasma fuel conditions and measure properties like ...

All of these new developments don’t mean that the sun is ready to give up its fusion monopoly, as many significant ...

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been selected to lead three research collaborations with fusion industry partners as part of the 2025 cohort of the Innovation Network for ...

Aurora, one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, is now being used to ...

Aug. 15, 2023 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science (SC), announced $112 million in funding for 12 projects that focus on collaborations among fusion scientists, applied ...

The Joint European Torus (JET), one of the world’s largest and most powerful fusion machines, has demonstrated the ability to reliably generate fusion energy, whilst simultaneously setting a ...

The breakthrough scientific moment for fusion power—and the potential for nearly limitless electricity from a so-called star in a jar—came at the end of 2022 when scientists at Lawrence Livermore ...

A major U.S. utility is part of a fusion energy project that would be located at the site of one of the company’s retired coal-fired power plants. Type One Energy Group on Feb. 21 announced plans to ...

The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Type One Energy and the University of Tennessee in Knoxville are partnering to establish a world-class facility that will drive ...