A Los Alamos collaboration has replicated an important but largely forgotten physics experiment: the first deuterium-tritium ...

But a deuterium-fueled “test reactor” with 50 megawatts of heating power and producing only 5 megawatts of deuterium-deuterium fusion power could yield about 3 kilograms of plutonium 239 in one year ...

If fusion energy is a must-have for advanced civilizations, evidence of its use could help us find aliens. A new study led by the University of Washington analyzes how deuterium-deuterium (DD ...

A mixture of deuterium and tritium – another isotope of hydrogen with two extra neutrons – is planned to be used to fuel future fusion power plants to replicate a “mini sun” on Earth. ITER – the ...

A new method to increase fusion-fuel efficiency would involve aligning the quantum spin of deuterium and tritium and changing the mix of the two fuels. The approach could boost tritium-burn ...

If fusion energy is a must-have for advanced civilizations, evidence of its use could help us find aliens. A new study led by the University of Washington analyzes how deuterium-deuterium (DD ...

When two fusion fuel atoms have the same quantum spin, they are more likely to fuse. “By amplifying the fusion cross section, more power can be produced from the same amount of fuel,” said Parisi.

There are also propulsion concepts that harness fusion reactions, like deuterium-tritium (D-T) and ... D-T reactions have relatively low ignition temperatures and a higher cross-section than ...

A new method to increase fusion-fuel efficiency would involve aligning the quantum spin of deuterium and tritium and changing the mix of the two fuels. The approach could boost tritium-burn ...