Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion ...

Lithium-6 is a crucial material for nuclear fusion reactors, but isolating it is challenging – now researchers have found a ...

The step is expected to give a strong support to future fusion reactors as tritium is a vital fuel for fusion power stations.

The latest experiments with China's HL-3 fusion reactor have set multiple national records and yielded groundbreaking, ...

Plans call for first-generation fusion reactors to use a mixture of deuterium and tritium — heavy types of hydrogen. In theory, with just a few grams of these reactants, it is possible to produce a ...

A world record for nuclear fusion has been smashed after an ... Plasma is created when the two fuels used in the reactor, ...

The simplest method of doing fusion on Earth instead of space involves tritium and deuterium isotopes. Tritium is rare and radioactive so reactors currently “breed” it on demand to generate ...

But where the National Ignition Facility uses lasers to compress a fuel pellet, General Fusion’s MTF reactor design relies on steam-driven pistons. Inside the chamber, deuterium-tritium fuel is ...

and recycle tritium. Canada-based General Fusion just announced it had successfully created plasma inside a prototype reactor as it seeks to prove that its “steampunk” approach to fusion power ...

Tritium raises challenges for measurement systems ... This decay not only poses a potential environmental risk but also impacts fusion reactor components and operational safety. Because of its ...

The site will also be the location where Avalanche will operate its Q>1 deuterium-tritium test program with the goal of developing the world's first net-energy compact fusion reactor system.

The fusion reactor needs special fuel to create energy ... fuel – which includes the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium. The challenges include making sure there’s enough tritium ...