Homemade fusion reactor built by a 12-year-old draws national attention

We got neutrons, yeah!” The shout came after years of after-school effort inside a Dallas home, where a seventh grader had ...

Texas boy starts building device for fun—by 12 he’s achieved nuclear fusion

Seventh-grader Aiden McMillan is in the running for a Guinness World Record as the youngest person to achieve nuclear fusion.

Young Dallas scientist builds nuclear fusion machine, eyes Guinness record

An awe-inspiring science project by a Dallas ISD seventh-grader is now drawing national attention, as the student works to ...
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First Light Fusion Makes Progress Towards an Economical Working Fusion Reactor

First Light Fusion is developing an inertial fusion with a pulsed process. They fire physical projectiles at high speeds like 40 kilometers per second to generate fusion OR they may use high-power ...
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Fusion reactors might create dark matter axions, and that’s wild

Fusion power has long been sold as the technology that could light our cities with the same process that powers the stars. Now a new line of research suggests those same reactors might also be ...
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Companies say they're closing in on nuclear fusion as an energy source. Will it work?

Inside a warehouse in Everett, Wash., the commercial fusion company Helion is building a next-generation device that it believes can revolutionize the electricity business. (Geoff Brumfiel | NPR) In a ...
AOL

Scientists create compact, room-temperature fusion reactor that fits on a tabletop

For decades, nuclear fusion has been viewed as the ultimate energy source—clean, powerful, and practically limitless. Most approaches to fusion involve enormous machines designed to squeeze plasma ...
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Princeton Plasma Physics Lab uses AI machine learning to advance fusion research

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory published a new paper last week, marking significant results from the lab’s artificial intelligence research. In the paper, published in Nature Communications, PPPL ...
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General Fusion announces new fusion demo machine

Canadian private fusion developer General Fusion has announced plans for a new Magnetised Target Fusion machine designed to achieve fusion conditions of over 100 million degrees Celsius by 2025, and ...
POWER Magazine

Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Siemens, NVIDIA Will Develop Fusion Digital Twin

Nuclear energy company Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) said it would collaborate with chipmaker NVIDIA and energy technology group Siemens to develop a digital twin of its SPARC fusion machine. The ...
OPB

Companies say they’re closing in on nuclear fusion as an energy source. Will it work?

In a gleaming warehouse complex north of Seattle, David Kirtley is building what he hopes will be the future of power generation. Standing in front of a set of aluminum coils that look like an ...
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Companies say they're closing in on nuclear fusion as an energy source. Will it work?

In a gleaming warehouse complex north of Seattle, David Kirtley is building what he hopes will be the future of power generation. Standing in front of a set of aluminum coils that look like an ...