Scientists just brought us one step closer to the dream of unlimited power. On November 17 at the Nevada National Security Site, a nuclear energy startup called Valar Atomics achieved zero-power ...

Some fusion machines chase brute-force power. Wendelstein 7-X chose elegance—3D magnetic geometry sculpted to tame plasma for ...

Producing fusion energy requires heating plasma to more than one hundred million degrees and confining it stably with strong ...

Researchers discovered heat in fusion reactors doesn't diffuse slowly—it executes an American football-style "long pass." ...

The utility company is proposing a 13-mile natural gas extension in Johnson and Washington counties, with the hope to start ...

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Abstract: This article proposes a novel dynamically tunable plasma-energy selective surface (Plasma-ESS) structure for protecting electronic and communication equipment from high-power microwave ...

At the ragged frontier where the Sun’s influence gives way to interstellar space, Voyager 1 has stumbled into something that ...

China has just crossed a threshold that many nuclear engineers have talked about for decades but no country had previously ...

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Abstract: Due to the inherent slow response time of diesel generators within an islanded microgrid (MG), their frequency and voltage control systems often struggle to effectively manage rapid load ...

After decades of being purely aspirational, commercial nuclear fusion is becoming a matter of "when, not if," driven by an accelerating rate of technological breakthroughs. The race for fusion is ...