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 ...

A Los Alamos collaboration has replicated an important but largely forgotten physics experiment: the first deuterium-tritium ...

With their innovative design, tokamak reactors are leading the charge in fusion research, aiming to unlock the potential of ...

Plasma Physics; February 8, 2024 Fusion research facility's final tritium experiments yield new energy record. by EUROfusion Editors' notes This article has been reviewed according to ...

But obviously, the atomic nuclei in the plasma—the tritium and deuterium—are moving about violently. Depending on how they're moving relative to the detector, ...

ITER has devised the technology that could unlock fusion energy, and they've done so with the aid of a 60-foot magnet. Here's ...

To initiate a fusion reaction, deuterium and tritium must be heated to over 100 million degrees Celsius to form plasma, which is then maintained by a strong magnetic “cage”.

The plasma is superheated, which means some of the atoms involved can strike the wall of the fusion vessel and become embedded. ... Deuterium also stands in for tritium in experiments.

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 ...