From assembly to first plasma in just two years is remarkably fast, but Song Yuntao—the project’s chief engineer from the ...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Ignition Facility increased the yield of the experiment in recent attempts.

Unlike nuclear fission, which splits atoms to generate energy, fusion combines hydrogen nuclei under ... fusion energy, China is developing the China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR ...

Traditional hydrogen bombs work through nuclear fusion, a process where atomic nuclei combine under ... bombs (which use nuclear fusion). China’s latest test introduces a non-nuclear explosive ...

Fission, by contrast, splits heavy atomic nuclei like uranium to generate ... It could also pave the way for the China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor, a large-scale, fusion-only project planned ...

SINGAPORE--China appears to be building ... Countries are allowed ‘subcritical’ explosive tests, which do not create nuclear reactions. Laser fusion research, known as inertial confinement ...

Things are heating up in the world of nuclear fusion research, with most fundamental issues resolved and an increasing rate of announcements being made regarding commercial fusion power.

At this temperature, the atomic nuclei ... fusion power. A global model ITER’s geopolitical achievement is also remarkable: the sustained collaboration of ITER’s seven members—China, Europe ...

Plans are also in place for the domestically developed China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor, which will produce a massive quantity of heat with a peak power output of up to 2 gigawatts.

In both cases, energy is freed because the mass of the remaining nucleus is smaller than the mass of the reacting nuclei. The reason why opposite processes release energy can be understood by ...