Items tagged with Nuclear fusion

Faster space travel has been the holy grail of space agencies for decades and a UK-based aerospace company says it might have a viable solution in the form of nuclear fusion. If all goes well, a working fusion prototype could happen as soon as 2027. Pulsar Fusion, a UK aerospace startup is claiming that it's in the... Read more...
Toward the end of last year, the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced that scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) had achieved a major scientific breakthrough involving fusion ignition. In what was touted as the first controlled fusion experiment in history, scientists were able to produce... Read more...
A team from the Department of Energy's Livermore Lab made history by achieving fusion ignition. The enormous breakthrough promises to change the future of clean power and the United State's national defense. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today that it had made a breakthrough decades in the making... Read more...
NASA and the Department of Energy (DOE) have narrowed the field of design concept proposals for a fission surface power system down to three. The technology is aimed at benefiting future Artemis missions to Mars and beyond, and could be ready to launch by the end of the decade for a demonstration on the Moon. The... Read more...
Yesterday, Lockheed Martin made major headlines across the Internet with claims that it was developing a new compact fusion reactor that could be deployed within the next decade. This is a bold claim -- researchers have been able to create fusion in a lab for decades, but the problem isn't creating fusion -- it's... Read more...