Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion reactors. The new approach doesn’t require toxic mercury, as conventional methods ...

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.

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 ...

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER ... it can subtract the tritium available for fusion and cause an accumulation of tritium inventory that exceeds the safety limits ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Japan’s JT-60SA fusion reactor project announced first plasma ... and later deuterium as its fuel rather than the deuterium-tritium (D-T) mixture of ITER, it nevertheless has a range of research ...

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 ...

These systems now rank among the best in the world, and they’ve helped set multiple records in China’s fusion research,’ ...