Fusion startups have a tough row to hoe. Their mission? To create a new kind of power plant that produces more energy than it consumes — something no one has ever done with fusion energy before. That ...

Claims of “net energy gain” in fusion experiments often exclude the massive energy consumed by the full system, leading to misleading headlines. Even under optimistic timelines, commercial fusion ...

Sam Altman is confident that we’ll unlock the power of the stars soon. The billionaire CEO of OpenAI claimed in an interview with Bloomberg in January that “fusion’s gonna work” in the next few ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If it looks like the set of some Hollywood sci-fi show, perhaps that's fitting, because what they are doing here is making stars ...

"You're talking once in multiple generations that a really new energy source comes into being." Speaking this week, UKIFS chief executive Paul Methven said a fusion power plant, set to be constructed ...

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 ...

In February, France's WEST nuclear fusion reactor made a big step toward getting clean, star-like energy for everyone. The machine held superheated plasma for 1,337 seconds, or just over 22 minutes.

Fusion power is a means of deriving electrical power from the heat released during nuclear fusion reactions, and it's been a long-time dream to produce a working reactor. Fusion occurs when two light ...

After getting a jolt from one of the biggest corporations in the world, Kearny-based Thea Energy is progressing on its goal of making fusion a commercially viable clean energy solution. Named after ...

Last year, fusion power startup General Fusion was struggling to raise funds, laying off at least 25% of its staff before receiving a $22 million lifeline investment while it figured out how to keep ...

Google has signed an agreement to buy electricity from Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ planned Chesterfield County facility — expected to be the world’s first grid-scale commercial fusion power plant.