A groundbreaking collaboration between Los Alamos scientists and Duke University has resurrected a nearly forgotten 1938 ...

Physicists confirm DT fusion insights from a 1938 experiment. The findings connect past theory with current fusion efforts. A ...

The most used isotopes of hydrogen for nuclear fusion are deuterium and tritium. Deuterium can be extracted from seawater, while lithium can produce tritium within the reactor itself.

More information: A. Dal Molin et al, Measurement of the Gamma-Ray-to-Neutron Branching Ratio for the Deuterium-Tritium Reaction in Magnetic Confinement Fusion Plasmas, Physical Review Letters (2024).

Deuterium-deuterium fusion: Theoretically more promising than deuterium-tritium because of the ease of obtaining the two deuterium atoms and the higher energy yields it would produce, this method ...

A Los Alamos collaboration has replicated an important but largely forgotten physics experiment: the first deuterium-tritium (DT) fusion observation. As described in the article published in ...

Apart from neutron-capturing technologies and high-tech materials, fusion scientists and engineers still need to figure out how to close the deuterium-tritium fuel cycle.

A forgotten fusion experiment from 1938 has been unearthed, revealing a lost discovery that seeded a key concept in modern ...

The Joint European Torus (JET) nuclear fusion experiment broke the record for sustained fusion energy at the end of 2021, achieving 59 megajoules.

New research offers insights that could help reduce the amount of radioactive tritium embedded in the walls of fusion vessels to a minimum.

A fusion reaction combining deuterium and tritium to make helium set a power record at the Joint European Torus—bringing us closer to unlimited clean power.