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U.S. scientists say the concept of cold fusion, a controversial concept once hailed as a scientific breakthrough, may be ready for rebirth. http://www.physorg.com/news94483572.html Physics Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:26:12 EST news94483572 An experimental reactor that could harness nuclear fusion, the power that fuels the Sun, will begin operation in southern France in 2018, the project's governing body announced Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news164558159.html Technology Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:03:11 EST news164558159 China's first experimental fast nuclear reactor that can burn up to 70 percent of uranium fuel is expected to start trials in four years. http://www.physorg.com/news80501932.html Technology Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:38:52 EST news80501932 European scientists will build on U.S. military research to try to create laser-based nuclear fusion aimed at replacing fossil fuels, it was reported. http://www.physorg.com/news108035191.html Physics Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:46:31 EST news108035191 Purdue University is reportedly investigating the research of Professor Rusi Taleyarkhan, who said he produced nuclear fusion in a tabletop experiment (see link 1, link 2). http://www.physorg.com/news11545.html Physics Wed, 08 Mar 2006 15:46:18 EST news11545 Chemists are preparing to play an important but often unheralded role in determining the success of one of the largest and most important scientific experiments in history - next year's initial attempts at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) to produce the world's first controlled nuclear fusion reaction. If successful in taming the energy source of the sun, stars, and of the hydrogen bomb, scientists could develop a limitless new source of producing electricity for homes, factories, and businesses. The experiment could also lead to new insights into the origins of the universe. http://www.physorg.com/news169893112.html Physics Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:50:04 EST news169893112 (PhysOrg.com) -- The investment in nuclear power has been growing around the world over the last few years, being viewed as a means for countries to control their energy security, avoid the price fluctuations of other energy sources, and reduce their carbon dioxide emissions, but concerns are now being raised. http://www.physorg.com/news177839133.html Physics Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:50:06 EST news177839133 Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have designed a new system that, when fully developed, would use fusion to eliminate most of the transuranic waste produced by nuclear power plants. http://www.physorg.com/news152284917.html Physics Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:22:37 EST news152284917 A multi-billion-dollar project to prove whether nuclear fusion, the power that fuels the Sun, can be a practicable energy source is to be scaled down in its early stages, sources said on Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news163683173.html Technology Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:33:38 EST news163683173 To many people, cold fusion sounds too good to be true. The idea is that, by creating nuclear fusion at room temperature, researchers can generate a nearly unlimited source of power that uses water as fuel and produces almost zero waste. Essentially, cold fusion would make oil obsolete. http://www.physorg.com/news131101595.html Physics Tue, 27 May 2008 10:06:35 EST news131101595 (PhysOrg.com) -- Currently, most nuclear fusion power plants are large, expensive projects that will take decades to benefit from. But a startup company in Vancouver, Canada, called General Fusion is taking the fast track to fusion, with a plan to build a working prototype fusion power plant within the next decade at a cost of less than a billion dollars. http://www.physorg.com/news168623833.html Physics Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:57:53 EST news168623833 A Purdue University scientist says he will cooperate with a university review of his work in which he claims to have achieved fusion. (see "Purdue investigates professor's tabletop nuclear fusion research") http://www.physorg.com/news11578.html Physics Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:10:49 EST news11578 In the quest to produce nuclear fusion energy, researchers from the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have recently confirmed long-standing theoretical predictions that performance, efficiency and reliability are simultaneously obtained in tokamaks, the leading magnetic confinement fusion device, operating at their performance limits. Experiments designed to test these predictions have successfully demonstrated the interaction of these conditions. http://www.physorg.com/news176402578.html Physics Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:30:03 EST news176402578 Researchers are reporting compelling new scientific evidence for the existence of low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), the process once called "cold fusion" that may promise a new source of energy. One group of scientists, for instance, describes what it terms the first clear visual evidence that LENR devices can produce neutrons, subatomic particles that scientists view as tell-tale signs that nuclear reactions are occurring. http://www.physorg.com/news157046734.html Physics Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:06:19 EST news157046734 A new supercomputer will help us to understand the complex physical effects taking place inside the ITER fusion reactor. The computer known as HPC-FF will deliver computing power of about 100 teraflop/s and is optimally suited for the fusion scientists' simulation programs. The European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA) has charged its member Forschungszentrum Jülich, one of the world's leading supercomputing centres, with constructing and operating the computer. http://www.physorg.com/news152538813.html Physics Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:54:08 EST news152538813