A tokamak is a toroidal device that employs magnetic confinement to achieve controlled nuclear fusion. It resembles a helical ...

For a long time, the Greenwald limit was accepted as a given and incorporated into fusion reactor engineering. The new work shows that precise control over how the plasma is created and interacts with ...

Researchers using China’s “artificial sun” fusion reactor have broken through a long-standing density barrier in fusion ...

Researchers working on China's fully superconducting Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) have experimentally ...

China’s flagship fusion experiment has pushed its superheated fuel into a regime that many physicists once dismissed as ...

China’s latest advance with its so‑called artificial sun has pushed fusion plasma into a regime many physicists long treated ...

In a new milestone for fusion energy research, physicists in China say they have exceeded the plasma-density limit.