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

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

Deuterium (heavy hydrogen), for instance, has one proton and one neutron in its nucleus. When two deuterium nuclei are fused together, they form a helium nucleus (two protons and two neutrons ...

Noting that deuterium nuclei are heavier than hydrogen, the researchers reasoned that they should be less delocalized than protons and thus should require more pressure to transition.

If the particles are made hot enough, the deuterium nuclei will collide with ample force to “fuse” together, forming helium 3 and giving off a neutron. When that happens, ...

Once the nuclei come within a very close range of each other, the attractive nuclear force between them will outweigh the electrical repulsion and allow them to fuse. ... Most of the fusion reactor ...

Inside the reactor, deuterium and tritium nuclei collide and fuse, releasing helium and neutrons. (Image: IAEA/M. Barbarino) Reaching for the stars . While the sun’s massive gravitational force ...

In the case of zero-field nuclear magnetic resonance (zero-field NMR), there is no need for a powerful external magnetic field. Here, the intramolecular couplings between the spins of magnetically ...

Deuterium and hydrogen are isotopes of one another, meaning they're different forms of the same element, containing equal numbers of protons but different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei.