A fisheye view of the WEST tokamak, a rounded metal device
WEST's interior, which just broke a fusion record for a tungsten tokamak.
  • A fusion reactor in southern France achieved a significant milestone toward clean, limitless energy.
  • The fusion reactor, WEST, created a super-hot plasma and sustained it for a record-breaking 6 minutes.
  • The experiment is laying the groundwork for a larger fusion reactor called ITER.

A fusion reactor in southern France, called WEST, just achieved an important milestone that brings us one step closer to clean, sustainable, nearly limitless energy.