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 ...

Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream of controlled nuclear fusion may be within reach ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 most potent deuterium-tritium fusion reactions are possible only if the fusion reactor has a lithium blanket. Highly energetic (14 MeV) neutrons from the fusion reactions, the source of the ...

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 ...

Building a fusion reactor. Fusion occurs when two types of hydrogen atoms, deuterium and tritium, collide in extreme conditions.

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).