Nuclear fission is fizzling, despite being pitched by the federal Coalition. But some Australian investors are betting big on ...

Lawmakers introduced a package of bills to support nuclear fusion research, in hopes of creating a nuclear "Silicon Valley" ...

The company’s ambitious new Sunbird design aims to harness nuclear fusion in space, despite the fact that commercializing ...

In April 2023, we reported on federal efforts to streamline fusion energy regulations. At that time, the Commissioners of the ...

Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion reactors. The new approach doesn’t require toxic mercury, as conventional methods ...

Science can’t be rushed, but fusion’s true believers think capturing the sun in a bottle could light humanity’s future.

Artificial Intelligence is outpacing its own energy needs, and technology companies nationwide are turning to nuclear power ...

British startup Pulsar Fusion has unveiled Sunbird, a space rocket concept designed to meet spacecraft in orbit, attach to them, and carry them to their destination at breakneck speed using nuclear ...

China is developing Xinghuo, the world's first fusion-fission reactor, set to be operational by 2030. If successful, it could revolutionise energy production, providing a cheap, high-output power ...

Because Xinghuo is a fusion-fission plant, it will make use of both technologies in its production of energy. Nuclear fusion is a reaction in which two or more light nuclei combine to form a ...

Unlike conventional chemical rockets, Sunbird relies on nuclear fusion – a process that replicates the energy production at the core of stars – to propel spacecraft.

U.S.-German startup Focused Energy, which aims to build power plants fueled by fusion, said on Monday it has signed an ...