While nuclear fusion has achieved key milestones, transforming it into a practical energy source requires solving complex ...

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence is pushing global energy infrastructure to its limits. Data centers are ...

Nuclear fusion holds the potential for clean, greenhouse gas-free baseload power, but challenges in controlling plasma have hindered its commercial viability. Recent breakthroughs, particularly with ...

In December 2022, researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility in California conducted a controlled nuclear fusion experiment that, for the first time, ...

Nuclear energy is undergoing a resurgence the era of data centers and AI, a former chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ...

The breakthrough scientific moment for fusion power—and the potential for nearly limitless electricity from a so-called star in a jar—came at the end of 2022 when scientists at Lawrence Livermore ...

Booth is a reporter at TIME. Booth is a reporter at TIME. When Sam Altman arrived at Helion Energy’s small Redmond, Wash., office in early 2014, nuclear-fusion textbooks tucked under his arm, the ...

Nuclear fusion promises a green and infinitely renewable supply of energy—if we can harness it. Fusion happens all the time inside the sun. But to recreate the process on Earth, we must control ...

The global AI boom is supercharging investment across nearly every energy sector - from geothermal to nuclear fusion - while ...