Last Updated:February 21, 2025, 11:58 IST France’s WEST tokamak set a record by sustaining plasma for 1,337 seconds, surpassing China’s EAST. This milestone marks progress towards stable nuclear fusion for energy Scientists believe that harnessing stable nuclear fusion on Earth could provide a potent and sustainable energy source. (AI Generated) France achieved a significant milestone
A world record for nuclear fusion has been smashed after an ‘artificial sun’ reactor was able to maintain a plasma for more than 22 minutes. The WEST reactor, in southern France, is at the forefront of efforts to produce huge amounts of energy from the nuclear reaction when two atoms fuse. But, to have a
A Russian drone attack has hit the radiation shelter over the damaged reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. The overnight strike hit the shelter of the plant’s destroyed former fourth power unit, causing a fire that has since been extinguished, he added. As of Friday morning, radiation levels
If we want to rely on nuclear fusion to power the world’s homes, the first step is making reactors that can run as hot and as long as possible. Now, China’s ‘artificial sun’ reactor – officially called ‘Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak’ (EAST) – has set a new world record, bringing the goal of limitless clean energy
First came the news that Enron was back. Yes, Enron — the energy company whose profits were built on long-term fraud and which ended up filing what was, in 2001, the largest bankruptcy in history. Last month, people began noticing a website for a seemingly reborn Enron, using the same logo and branding, and announcing
Enron has unveiled a new product called the ‘Enron Egg,’ the world’s first at-home micro-nuclear reactor that can power an entire home for 10 continuous years. If that sounds too good to be true, that’s because it is. The product is entirely fictional, created as a ‘parody’ in what appears to be part of an
Damien Jemison The National Ignition Facility in California uses powerful lasers to spark fusion reactions Deep under the Nevada desert in the 1980s the US conducted secret nuclear weapons research. Among the experiments was an effort to see if nuclear fusion, the reaction which powers the sun, could be sparked on earth in a controlled
An attempt to use an extendable robot to remove a fragment of melted fuel from a wrecked reactor at Japan’s tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was suspended Thursday due to a technical issue. The collection of a tiny sample of the debris inside the Unit 2 reactor’s primary containment vessel would start the fuel