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 ...

Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream of controlled nuclear fusion may be within reach ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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.

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”.

This soup of electrons, protons, and neutrons needs to push the mercury to at least 100 million degrees Celsius (for deuterium-tritium reactions), but getting plasma that hot isn’t necessarily ...

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 ...