Plans call for first-generation fusion reactors to use a mixture of deuterium and tritium — heavy types of hydrogen. In theory, with just a few grams of these reactants, it is possible to produce a ...

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 ...

Deuterium is common: about 1 out of every 6,500 hydrogen atoms in seawater is in the form of deuterium. On the other hand, ...

and heavy water's more scientific name is deuterium oxide, abbreviated as D 2 0. Nuclear power plants harness the energy of countless atoms of uranium splitting apart, or fissioning, in a chain ...

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 ...

Every molecule of pure “heavy water” contains two atoms of deuterium, which is hydrogen ... and sell heavy water 99.5% pure. The case of tritium, triple-weight hydrogen, is different.

This extra neutron makes deuterium heavier than regular hydrogen, making it easily distinguishable when analyzing atoms from afar ... isotope of hydrogen called tritium. Tritium has an even ...

An almost negligible proportion of a few per million consists of "heavy water," in which the hydrogen atoms (H) are replaced by deuterium atoms (D). Deuterium has one ...

With next month’s JET deuterium-tritium fuel experiments the goal is ... such as the helium atoms that are produced as a result of the fusion process. Keeping the plasma stable and pure are ...

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