Richard Crane, Arthur Ruhlig’s thesis advisor, with the University of Michigan accelerator used for experiments. Photo ...

Scientists have replicated a forgotten but crucial experiment that took place in 1938. The first-ever triton-deuterium ...

It can be found inside gas giants such as Jupiter and is briefly created during meteorite impacts or in laser fusion ...

A paper on fusion neutron sources by a team from the United States of America’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the University of Rochester has won the IAEA’s annual Nuclear Fusion prize.

A paper on fusion neutron sources by a team from the United States of America's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the University of Rochester ...

If all works as expected, the deuterium and tritium will slam together at about a million miles per hour, forming a plasma, fusing, and perhaps producing a net energy gain. Wurden thinks his team has ...

The capsule’s outer layer of carbon almost explodes, but the counterforce of the X-rays causes it to implode. In this thermonuclear reaction, the deuterium and tritium fuse, releasing energy and ...

Deuterium isotopes can be extracted from seawater. But tritium, a second isotope used in the fusion machine, is not found in nature, making it a scarce and therefore expensive fuel.

This story was originally published by Undark and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. I n 1989, a pair of chemists boasted at having achieved fusion — that is, harnessing the same ...