Two Los Alamos Laboratory scientists discovered Arthur Ruhlig’s major contributions to fusion physics, and they did so ...

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

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).

The need for limitless, clean energy has pushed scientists to explore efficient fusion reactor designs. Now, the world’s most advanced tokamak has achieved stable Deuterium-Tritium plasmas ...

Fusion could generate four times more energy per kilogram of fuel than fission (used in nuclear power plants) and nearly four million times more energy than burning oil or coal. Most of the fusion ...

Modern re-run shows that Arthur Ruhlig’s conclusions, which probably influenced early thinking about fusion energy, were ...

On earth, we need temperatures exceeding 100 million degrees Celsius and intense pressure to make deuterium and tritium fuse, and sufficient confinement to hold the plasma and maintain the fusion ...

The U.S.-based fusion company SHINE announced earlier this month that they witnessed the phenomenon during a deuterium-tritium fusion process. When an object travels faster than the speed of sound ...

The deuterium-tritium fusion reaction produces fast-moving solo neutrons. Their kinetic energy can be captured in a "blanket" of liquid that surrounds the fusion reactor chamber and heats up as ...

Full power operations using a deuterium/tritium fuel mix will be set back by four years. Even if this new schedule is kept, however, that won't be until 2039. So, we're looking at 15 years even if ...

Delay is the way: Full operation with deuterium and tritium at the ITER fusion reactor is now not expected until 2039. (Courtesy: ITER Organization/EJF Riche) The ITER fusion reactor currently being ...

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).