In a Huge First, Physicists May Have Found a Shortcut to Fusion Energy

In a Huge First, Physicists May Have Found a Shortcut to Fusion Energy

An artist's rendition of a tokamak fusion system. (Kyle Palmer/PPPL Communications Department) 'Go around the peak.'ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.

In a Huge First, Physicists May Have Found A Shortcut To Fusion Energy

(Kyle Palmer/PPPL Communications Department) The Sun at the center of our own Solar System is a great advert for nuclear fusion: ultra-high temperatures and pressures combining to fuse hydrogen nuclei together into helium nuclei, releasing a huge amount of energy along the way. If we can get the same reactions happening on Earth, nuclear fusion […]