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 ...

So Jarrott and his Focused Energy colleague Jacob Peterson decided to set off on their own, founding Hexium with an eye ...

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 ...

"The blanket serves three main goals." Researchers ignite hope for future energy with high-tech 'blanket' breakthrough: ...

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 ...

Lithium, whose silvery-white colour tarnishes on oxidation when exposed to air, is the most electropositive metal (−3.04 V versus a standard hydrogen electode), the lightest (M = 6.94 g mol −1 ...

There are no CO 2 or other harmful atmospheric emissions from the fusion process, which means that fusion does not contribute to greenhouse gas emissions or global warming. Its two sources of fuel, ...

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 ...

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