In a major scientific achievement, European researchers at the Joint European Torus (JET) facility have set a new world energy record of 69 megajoules released in sustained and controlled fusion ...

Landmark results from EUROfusion scientists and engineers at world-leading Joint European Torus (JET) facility in Oxford, UK Record-breaking 59 megajoules of sustained fusion energy demonstrates ...

EUROfusion proudly commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Joint European Torus' (JET) first plasma, a remarkable milestone for the world's largest and most advanced fusion research tokamak that has ...

Screenshots from a ‘Neon-Seed Integrated ITER Baseline Plasma Scenarios in D-T’ pulse video recorded during the EUROfusion DTE3 campaign at JET, showcasing pivotal experiments at the forefront of ...

On May 22, 2025, the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarator achieved a world record for the triple product in long plasma discharges, a critical measure of fusion performance. With the support of ...

One of the key factors in the fusion reaction is temperature. Devices like ITER will need to heat the plasma up to 150 million °C –ten times hotter than the core of the Sun – and keep it burning. To ...

EUROfusion, a frontrunner in fusion energy research, welcomes Prof. Ambrogio Fasoli as its new Programme Manager (CEO). With his vast experience and leadership at the Swiss Plasma Center and at the ...

Reaching durations such as these is a crucial milestone for machines like ITER, which will need to maintain fusion plasmas for several minutes. The end goal is to control the plasma, which is ...

Forty years ago, physicists at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics found a new plasma state that could be particularly suitable for energy production: the H-mode. On 8 November 1982, the ...

Hefei, China — 24 November 2025 — EUROfusion and the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP), have officially released the first edition of the Research Plan for the Burning ...

Researchers from the EUROfusion consortium announced scientific results from their record-breaking experimental campaign at the Joint European Torus (JET) fusion facility in 2021. These results, ...

From semiconductors to moon rocks: Many materials are treated with ion beams. A research group at TU Wien has now been able to explain how this process depends on the roughness of the surface. If you ...