---
title: "Fusion Energy"
slug: "fusion-energy"
discipline: "Physics / Energy"
description: "Nuclear fusion research and engineering. Covers tokamak and stellarator designs, inertial confinement, laser fusion, and the path to commercial fusion power."
icon: "☀️"
url: "https://science-database.com/technology/fusion-energy"
api: "https://science-database.com/api/v1/technology/fusion-energy"
llms_txt: "https://science-database.com/technology/fusion-energy/llms.txt"
articles_indexed: 15
last_updated: "2026-04-11T06:29:18.309Z"
search_terms:
  - "nuclear fusion energy reactor"
  - "tokamak plasma confinement"
  - "inertial confinement fusion"
source: "science-database.com"
license: "metadata CC0, abstracts belong to respective publishers"
---

# Fusion Energy

Nuclear fusion research and engineering. Covers tokamak and stellarator designs, inertial confinement, laser fusion, and the path to commercial fusion power.

**Discipline:** Physics / Energy  
**Indexed Papers:** 15  
**Last Updated:** 2026-04-11

## Top Publications

Ranked by citation impact across Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex & arXiv.

### Radiation Resistant Camera System for Monitoring Deuterium Plasma Discharges in the Large Helical Device

- **Authors:** M. Shoji, LHD Experiment Group
- **Journal:** Plasma and Fusion Research
- **Published:** 2020-06-08
- **DOI:** [10.1585/pfr.15.2402039](https://doi.org/10.1585/pfr.15.2402039)
- **Citations:** 801,217
- **Source:** OpenAlex
- **Access:** Open Access
- **PDF:** [Download](https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/pfr/15/0/15_2402039/_pdf)
- **llms.txt:** [View](https://science-database.com/technology/fusion-energy/paper/oa-W3038568908/llms.txt)

> Radiation resistant camera system was constructed for monitoring deuterium plasma discharges in the Large Helical Device (LHD). This system has contributed to safe operation during two experimental campaigns without serious problems due to radiation (neutrons and gamma-rays). The cameras steadily functioned even in the plasma discharge with the maximum neutron emission rate in FY 2017, though some...

### Materials challenges in nuclear energy

- **Authors:** S.J. Zinkle, Gary S. Was
- **Journal:** Acta Materialia
- **Published:** 2013-01-19
- **DOI:** [10.1016/j.actamat.2012.11.004](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2012.11.004)
- **Citations:** 2,494
- **Source:** OpenAlex
- **llms.txt:** [View](https://science-database.com/technology/fusion-energy/paper/oa-W2072024713/llms.txt)

### The Future of Energy Supply: Challenges and Opportunities

- **Authors:** Nicola Armaroli, Vincenzo Balzani
- **Journal:** Angewandte Chemie International Edition
- **Published:** 2006-11-17
- **DOI:** [10.1002/anie.200602373](https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.200602373)
- **Citations:** 1,878
- **Source:** OpenAlex
- **llms.txt:** [View](https://science-database.com/technology/fusion-energy/paper/oa-W2158221767/llms.txt)

> Energy for everybody? The ever increasing world energy demand cannot be satisfied much longer with fossil fuels; alternatives are required to limit the chance of a climate collapse and the spreading of wars for natural resources. The 21st century will be largely defined by the way we face and resolve the energy crisis. This is an intricate and fascinating scientific challenge, in which chemistry w...

### Structural materials for fission & fusion energy

- **Authors:** S.J. Zinkle, Jeremy T. Busby
- **Journal:** Materials Today
- **Published:** 2009-11-01
- **DOI:** [10.1016/s1369-7021(09)70294-9](https://doi.org/10.1016/s1369-7021(09)70294-9)
- **Citations:** 1,226
- **Source:** OpenAlex
- **Access:** Open Access
- **PDF:** [Download](https://doi.org/10.1016/s1369-7021(09)70294-9)
- **llms.txt:** [View](https://science-database.com/technology/fusion-energy/paper/oa-W2091202444/llms.txt)

> Structural materials represent the key for containment of nuclear fuel and fission products as well as reliable and thermodynamically efficient production of electrical energy from nuclear reactors. Similarly, high-performance structural materials will be critical for the future success of proposed fusion energy reactors, which will subject the structures to unprecedented fluxes of high-energy neu...

### Comparisons and physics basis of tokamak transport models and turbulence simulations

- **Authors:** A. M. Dimits, G. Bateman, M Beer, B. I. Cohen, W. Dorland, G. W. Hammett, Chel-Woon Kim, J. E. Kinsey, M. Kotschenreuther, A.H. Kritz, L. L. Lao, J. Mandrekas, W. M. Nevins, Scott Parker, A. J. Redd, D.E. Shumaker, R. D. Sydora, J. Weiland
- **Journal:** Physics of Plasmas
- **Published:** 2000-03-01
- **DOI:** [10.1063/1.873896](https://doi.org/10.1063/1.873896)
- **Citations:** 1,010
- **Source:** OpenAlex
- **llms.txt:** [View](https://science-database.com/technology/fusion-energy/paper/oa-W2140734476/llms.txt)

> The predictions of gyrokinetic and gyrofluid simulations of ion-temperature-gradient (ITG) instability and turbulence in tokamak plasmas as well as some tokamak plasma thermal transport models, which have been widely used for predicting the performance of the proposed International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) tokamak [Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research, 1996 (Inter...

### Ferritic/martensitic steels for next-generation reactors

- **Authors:** R.L. Klueh, Andrew Nelson
- **Journal:** Journal of Nuclear Materials
- **Published:** 2007-05-11
- **DOI:** [10.1016/j.jnucmat.2007.05.005](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2007.05.005)
- **Citations:** 865
- **Source:** OpenAlex
- **llms.txt:** [View](https://science-database.com/technology/fusion-energy/paper/oa-W1985551064/llms.txt)

### Plasma Physics and Fusion Energy

- **Authors:** J. P. Freidberg
- **Journal:** Cambridge University Press eBooks
- **Published:** 2007-02-08
- **DOI:** [10.1017/cbo9780511755705](https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511755705)
- **Citations:** 483
- **Source:** OpenAlex
- **llms.txt:** [View](https://science-database.com/technology/fusion-energy/paper/oa-W1597745259/llms.txt)

> There has been an increase in interest worldwide in fusion research over the last decade and a half due to the recognition that a large number of new, environmentally attractive, sustainable energy sources will be needed to meet ever increasing demand for electrical energy. Based on a series of course notes from graduate courses in plasma physics and fusion energy at MIT, the text begins with an o...

### The influence of helium on the bulk properties of fusion reactor structural materials

- **Authors:** H. Ullmaier
- **Journal:** Nuclear Fusion
- **Published:** 1984-08-01
- **DOI:** [10.1088/0029-5515/24/8/009](https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/24/8/009)
- **Citations:** 402
- **Source:** OpenAlex
- **llms.txt:** [View](https://science-database.com/technology/fusion-energy/paper/oa-W2060246695/llms.txt)

> Radiation-induced deterioration of fission reactor materials is dominated by displacement damage. In fusion reactors, the influence of (n, α) produced helium upon material deterioration is regarded to be of equal importance because of the high nuclear reaction rate caused by the high-energy fusion neutrons. In this review, the mechanisms and the anticipated rates of helium generation in fusion mat...

### Predicting disruptive instabilities in controlled fusion plasmas through deep learning

- **Authors:** Julian Kates‐Harbeck, Alexey Svyatkovskiy, W. M. Tang
- **Journal:** Nature
- **Published:** 2019-04-01
- **DOI:** [10.1038/s41586-019-1116-4](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1116-4)
- **Citations:** 359
- **Source:** OpenAlex
- **Access:** Open Access
- **PDF:** [Download](https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1507546)
- **llms.txt:** [View](https://science-database.com/technology/fusion-energy/paper/oa-W2937394206/llms.txt)

### Materials for future nuclear energy systems

- **Authors:** Gary S. Was, David A. Petti, Shigeharu Ukai, S.J. Zinkle
- **Journal:** Journal of Nuclear Materials
- **Published:** 2019-10-07
- **DOI:** [10.1016/j.jnucmat.2019.151837](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2019.151837)
- **Citations:** 332
- **Source:** OpenAlex
- **llms.txt:** [View](https://science-database.com/technology/fusion-energy/paper/oa-W2979774340/llms.txt)

### Nuclear energy: A pathway towards mitigation of global warming

- **Authors:** M.D. Mathew
- **Journal:** Progress in Nuclear Energy
- **Published:** 2021-12-10
- **DOI:** [10.1016/j.pnucene.2021.104080](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnucene.2021.104080)
- **Citations:** 323
- **Source:** OpenAlex
- **llms.txt:** [View](https://science-database.com/technology/fusion-energy/paper/oa-W4200121615/llms.txt)

### Nuclear energy consumption, nuclear fusion reactors and environmental quality: The case of G7 countries

- **Authors:** Nigar Demircan Çakar, Seyfettin Erdoğan, Ayfer Gedikli, Mehmet Akif Öncü
- **Journal:** Nuclear Engineering and Technology
- **Published:** 2021-10-19
- **DOI:** [10.1016/j.net.2021.10.015](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2021.10.015)
- **Citations:** 58
- **Source:** OpenAlex
- **Access:** Open Access
- **PDF:** [Download](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2021.10.015)
- **llms.txt:** [View](https://science-database.com/technology/fusion-energy/paper/oa-W3205691532/llms.txt)

> Global climate change brings environmental quality sensitivity, especially in developed countries. Developed countries use non-renewable energy sources intensively both in their own countries and in other countries, they make productions that cause an enormous rate of increase in CO2 emissions and unsustainable environmental costs. This has increased the interest in environmentally friendly altern...

### Nuclear-fusion reactor smashes energy record

- **Authors:** Elizabeth Gibney
- **Journal:** Nature
- **Published:** 2022-02-09
- **DOI:** [10.1038/d41586-022-00391-1](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00391-1)
- **Citations:** 44
- **Source:** OpenAlex
- **Access:** Open Access
- **PDF:** [Download](https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-022-00391-1/d41586-022-00391-1.pdf)
- **llms.txt:** [View](https://science-database.com/technology/fusion-energy/paper/oa-W4210936815/llms.txt)

> The experimental Joint European Torus has doubled the record for the amount of energy made from fusing atoms — the process that powers the Sun. The experimental Joint European Torus has doubled the record for the amount of energy made from fusing atoms — the process that powers the Sun.

### The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor and the future of nuclear fusion energy

- **Authors:** Pan Chuan
- **Published:** 2010-01-01
- **Citations:** 8
- **Source:** OpenAlex
- **llms.txt:** [View](https://science-database.com/technology/fusion-energy/paper/oa-W2389209614/llms.txt)

> Energy shortage and environmental problems are now the two largest challenges for human beings.Magnetic confinement nuclear fusion,which has achieved great progress since the 1990's,is anticipated to be a way to realize an ideal source of energy in the future because of its abundance,environmental compatibility,and zero carbon release.Exemplified by the construction of the International Thermonucl...

### Nuclear energy and fusion-fission hybrid reactor for pure energy production

- **Authors:** Peng Xian
- **Published:** 2010-01-01
- **Citations:** 7
- **Source:** OpenAlex
- **llms.txt:** [View](https://science-database.com/technology/fusion-energy/paper/oa-W2350686115/llms.txt)

> The next two decades are very critical for nuclear energy development.The commercial fast reactor may be in use around 2035;it is also possible that magnetically confined fusion,laser fusion and z-pinch fusion will be demonstrated at that time.A fusion demonstration reactor can be a pure fusion or a fusion-fission hybrid.The latter can lower the fusion power and mitigate the radiation damage of hi...

---

*Generated by [science-database.com](https://science-database.com) — The Knowledge Interface*  
*Full data available via [JSON API](https://science-database.com/api/v1/technology/fusion-energy)*