Tritium, a rare, radioactive isotope of hydrogen, is difficult and expensive to source. “Breeder” reactors seek to manufacture tritium by bombarding lithium with neutrons. Lithium atoms exist ...

“When 7Li, the most commonly occurring lithium isotope, is used, tritium production is much less efficient as compared to 6Li,” Banerjee said. “As such, modern reactor designs are based on ...

In fusion reactors, those atoms are deuterium (a heavy form of hydrogen that is abundant in seawater) and tritium (an even heavier form of hydrogen that is extremely rare but can be bred from ...

China has shipped vital modules for a global fusion reactor project in France ... While the current project doesn’t focus on tritium production, the team plans to explore its role in the ...

A fusion reactor produces helium, which is an inert gas. It also produces and consumes tritium within the plant in a closed ... No, because fusion energy production is not based on a chain reaction, ...

Inside the reactor, deuterium and tritium nuclei collide and fuse ... with the aim of demonstrating the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion energy production. The ITER Agreement is ...

US fusion start-up Avalanche Energy has announced the launch of its FusionWERX test facility in Richland, Washington.

The Graduate School of Engineering at Japan’s Tohoku University and Kyoto Fusioneering (KF) have signed a joint research ...

This basically means more energy output than what is required by the reactor’s magnetic field generator and other elements. With next month’s JET deuterium-tritium fuel experiments the goal is ...

The WEST reactor initially used carbon for its walls due to its ease of handling despite absorbing tritium from the fuel mixture. In 2012, carbon was swapped for tungsten despite tungsten's own ...

Japan’s JT-60SA fusion reactor project announced first plasma ... and later deuterium as its fuel rather than the deuterium-tritium (D-T) mixture of ITER, it nevertheless has a range of research ...