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National Ignition Facility operators inspect a final optics assembly during a routine maintenance period in August.

The Energy Department’s fusion breakthrough: It’s not really about generating electricity

By John Mecklin | Fusion Energy, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

we'll die of climate change sign

The nine best climate stories of the year

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

magnet being lowered into place at ITER

Fusion’s role in fighting climate change

By Robert J. Goldston, Jacob A. Schwartz | Climate Change, Fusion Energy, Special Topics

artist's illustration of a fusion power plant

National Academies calls for a fusion pilot plant

By Robert J. Goldston | Climate Change, Fusion Energy, Nuclear Energy

ITER: The Giant Fusion Reactor—book review by plasma physicist who heads Large Hadron Collider

By Lucio Rossi | Climate Change, Fusion Energy, Nuclear Energy

Why fusion?

By Robert J. Goldston | Analysis, Fusion Energy

When science brought Americans and Russians together

By Siegfried S. Hecker | Columnists, Fusion Energy, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

Can North America’s advanced nuclear reactor companies help save the planet?

By Elisabeth Eaves | Climate Change, Fusion Energy, Nuclear Energy

Nuclear weapons: The death of fusion?

By Daniel Clery | Fusion Energy, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

Osamu Motojima: Harnessing the 93-million-mile dream

By | Fusion Energy, Interviews

Inertial confinement fusion energy R&D and nuclear proliferation: The need for direct and transparent review

By Robert J. Goldston, Alexander Glaser | Fusion Energy, Uncategorized

Why Thomas Friedman is wrong about the National Ignition Facility

By Hugh Gusterson | Columnists, Fusion Energy, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons