China’s Fusion Reactor Reached an ‘Unbreakable’ Limit—and Broke Right Through It

By exceeding a long-standing density barrier, China’s EAST fusion reactor proved that tokamaks can pack way more atoms into ...

Do not wait around for nuclear fusion

To bring costs down, the US would need to mass produce reactors and cultivate a supply chain. This is similar to the ...
Nature

Chinese nuclear fusion reactor pushes plasma past crucial limit: what happens next

China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) is a nuclear-fusion research reactor in Hefei. Researchers hope ...
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China's 'artificial sun' reactor shatters major fusion limit — a step closer to near-limitless clean energy

China's EAST nuclear fusion reactor has successfully kept plasma stable at extreme densities, passing a major fusion ...
T&D World

Revitalizing U.S. Nuclear Power: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Prospects

U.S. nuclear power is seeing a resurgence as utilities, tech companies, and federal programs invest in restarts, SMRs, and ...

China’s EAST fusion reactor beats density limit, widens path to power

China’s EAST fusion reactor surpasses density limits, paving the way for advancements in sustainable fusion energy production ...
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Making materials hold up in future reactors is topic of Jan. 13 FORNL talk

Steve Zinkle will speak on “Materials for Nuclear Power Applications” at noon Tuesday, Jan. 13, to Friends of ORNL. His talk ...

The Nuclear Industry’s Race Against the Clock: EPRI Experts on Fleet Optimization, SMRs, and What’s Next

The electricity sector faces a timing problem that’s becoming impossible to ignore. Data centers, artificial intelligence (AI ...
IFLScience

China’s "Artificial Sun" Exceeds The Greenwald Limit For The First Time, Breaking Nuclear Fusion Density Record

R esearchers have been able to experimentally enter, for the first time, a new nuclear fusion regime, with plasma density ...
ZME Science on MSN

China’s “Artificial Sun” Just Smashed a Key Fusion Barrier and Physics May Never Be the Same

But on January 1, researchers working on China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) — often dubbed the ...
ScienceAlert on MSN

Fusion Physicists Found a Way Around a Long-Standing Density Limit

For a long time, the Greenwald limit was accepted as a given and incorporated into fusion reactor engineering. The new work shows that precise control over how the plasma is created and interacts with ...
Yicai Global

Chinese Fusion Reactor Breaks Plasma Density Limits, Moving Closer to ‘Man-Made Sun’

(Yicai) Jan. 7 -- Researchers working on the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak, a nuclear fusion reactor ...