Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Richmond-based company has achieved significant fusion neutron yield and plasma stability. General Fusion attained world-first ...

A concept of pulse compression in a plasma. Credit: Nature Photonics (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-023-01321-x A new method of creating laser pulses, more than 1,000 times as powerful as those currently ...

The company achieves performance milestones that demonstrate it is on track to meet its Fusion Demonstration Program goals at power plant relevant scale Compression system (CWC) General Fusion’s ...

Scientific results demonstrate the company's achievements in creating fusion through MTF, providing foundation for its LM26 fusion demonstration, which will begin compressing large-scale plasmas in ...

General Fusion is trying to make affordable fusion power a reality. • Founded in 2002, based in Vancouver, Canada • Plan to demonstrate proof of physics DD equivalent “net gain” in 2013 • Plan to ...

General Fusion says it has the world’s largest and most powerful plasma injector, capable of creating a ring of hydrogen plasma 6 feet in diameter and heating it to millions of degrees. This machine ...

A new spin on the magnetic compression of plasmas could improve materials science, nuclear fusion research, X-ray generation and laboratory astrophysics. A new spin on the magnetic compression of ...

Physicists studying antimatter have now derived an improved way of spatially compressing a state of matter called non-neutral plasma, which consists of both antimatter and matter particles. In a new ...

A new method of creating laser pulses, more than 1,000 times as powerful as those currently in existence, has been proposed by scientists in the UK and South Korea. The scientists have used computer ...

A new method of creating laser pulses, more than 1,000 times as powerful as those currently in existence, has been proposed by scientists in the UK and South Korea. The scientists have used computer ...