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 ...

In the southeastern region of France, a team of 2,000 physicists, scientists, and workers are busy building the world’s ...

Tritium is rare and radioactive so reactors currently “breed” it on demand to generate energy. They breed the tritium by bombarding lithium isotopes with neutrons. Most lithium on the planet ...

This proves General Fusion's Lawson Machine 26 (LM26) prototype reactor, built over the course ... extra neutrons called Deuterium and Tritium with electricity. This creates a magnetic field ...

A control valve issue at the Xcel Energy Monticello nuclear power plant caused the reactor to automatically shut down on ...

The reactor, called Lawson Machine 26 (LM26), is General Fusion’s latest iteration in a string of devices that have tested various parts of its unique approach.

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 ...