Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion reactors. The new approach doesn’t require toxic mercury, as conventional methods ...

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Lithium-6 is a crucial material for nuclear fusion reactors, but isolating it is challenging – now researchers have found a way to do this without using toxic mercury ...

Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have been working on ways to manage the intense heat that gets generated within fusion reactors. They have ...

A new study designed a copper-tantalum-based superalloy (with added lithium) that can operate up to 800 degrees Celsius (1472 ...

The next step will be to test the ring compressor that is designed to collapse the lithium liner around the plasma toroid, compressing it and achieving fusion. As promising this may sound ...

Canadian energy company General Fusion has achieved a world-first with its creation of a magnetized plasma in a target ...

Demand for lithium increased after World War II because of its role in the production of tritium, which was used as a solid fuel in nuclear fusion weapons. Lithium was later used to lower the ...

Fusion fuel is plentiful and easily accessible: deuterium can be extracted inexpensively from seawater, and tritium can be produced from naturally abundant lithium. Future fusion reactors will not ...