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 ...

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 ...

Science can’t be rushed, but fusion’s true believers think capturing the sun in a bottle could light humanity’s future.

The next steps are quite difficult; the team needs to find a way to scale the new process up to the industrial level, and this only represents one piece of the nuclear fusion puzzle. However, with ...