However, two hydrogen isotopes, deuterium and tritium, are considered the most effective nuclear fuel for fusion devices.

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 ...

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 ...

JET (Joint European Torus) will be testing the deuterium-tritium fuel mixture that will be powering the ITER (the research project whose name began as an acronym for International Thermonuclear ...

In a commercial fusion system, the fuel will likely be made of deuterium and tritium, which are both forms of hydrogen. Tritium is radioactive, but deuterium is not. So, the experiments used ...

This measurement, outlined in a paper published in Physical Review Letters, is the gamma-ray-to-neutron branching ratio in the deuterium-tritium reaction. "Our project started with ITER ...

Type One Energy has published the world’s first detailed and self-consistent physics basis for a practical fusion pilot power ...

TECHNOLOGISTS developing sensors to withstand the extreme conditions inside a fusion reactor – providing engineers with ...

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 ...

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