John F. Ahearne (NAE), Chair, is the executive director emeritus of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, an adjunct professor of engineering at Duke University, and an adjunct scholar at ...

The study of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) dynamics encompasses the intricate processes that occur during rapid fuel compression and ignition. Advanced numerical methods now enable the detailed ...

RSE and the National Institute of Optics of the National Research Council (CNR-INO) on March 26th 2025 signed a collaboration agreement to jointly develop studies, research activities, and ...

The international effort to build the world’s largest fusion reactor in southern France has entered a critical new phase, with project leaders adopting a revised 2024 baseline that acknowledges years ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nuclear fusion promises a green and infinitely renewable supply of energy—if we can harness it. Fusion happens all the time inside ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $42 million for a program that will establish multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary hubs to advance foundational inertial fusion energy (IFE) science ...

Fusion startups are racing to prove that they can bottle the power of the stars without the sprawling magnets or precision particle beams that defined earlier generations of reactors. Instead of ...

Following ignition demonstrations at the National Ignition Facility, the prospect of developing a fusion energy source using lasers looks brighter than ever. Here, SLAC experts weigh in on what it ...

Startup Inertia Enterprises Inc. today announced that it has raised $450 million in funding to build a laser-powered fusion reactor. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round. It was joined by Alphabet ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...