The world’s largest and most powerful superconducting electromagnet is ready to become the pulsing “heart” inside of a massive tokamak nuclear fusion reactor. Developed over 40 years in collaboration ...

In a facility just outside Bordeaux, one of France’s most prominent technology companies has unveiled an ambitious plan to ...

ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) is a multinational fusion project in France aiming to prove that nuclear fusion can be a viable large-scale energy source. As the world’s ...

The dream of humanity to imitate the forces that created their habitat has been alive for at least as far back as the time ...

Nuclear fusion is often described as the "holy grail ... to develop the technologies needed for commercial fusion reactors. France's WEST tokamak is in competition with its rival EAST, known ...

From assembly to first plasma in just two years is remarkably fast, but Song Yuntao—the project’s chief engineer from the ...

Germany has dropped its long-held opposition to nuclear power, in the first concrete sign of rapprochement with France by ...

The fusion reactor’s electromagnetic “heart” is complete, bringing us one step closer to clean, infinite energy—though there's still a long road ahead.

A much-delayed nuclear fusion project involving more than 30 countries is ready to assemble the world's most powerful magnet - a key part of efforts to generate clean energy by smashing atoms together ...