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 way to do this without using toxic mercury ...

Today, we know that the sun, along with all other stars, is powered by a reaction called nuclear ... hydrogen isotopes — will be used to fuel future fusion power plants. Inside the reactor, deuterium ...

The company’s ambitious new Sunbird design aims to harness nuclear fusion in space, despite the fact that commercializing ...

British startup Pulsar Fusion has unveiled Sunbird, a space rocket concept designed to meet spacecraft in orbit, attach to them, and carry them to their destination at breakneck speed using nuclear ...

This is the promise of nuclear fusion ... sun and other stars, where extreme temperatures and pressures allow hydrogen isotopes, like deuterium and tritium, to fuse into helium, generating ...

If fusion energy is a must ... two atoms of the hydrogen isotope deuterium), the strong nuclear force binds together these isotopes into Helium-3 and releases tremendous amounts of energy.

The dream of nuclear fusion has ... “The sun and the stars are all fusion reactors,” says Dinan. “They are element cookers — cooking hydrogen into helium — and then as they die, they ...