Nuclear Power Nuclear fusion fuel without toxic mercury Electrochemical process isolates lithium-6, critical for scaling fusion energy by Prachi Patel March 20, 2025 Credit: Shutterstock ...

Net-energy-gain fusion, a long-sought-after panacea for all that’s wrong with traditional nuclear-fission energy (read accidents, radioactive waste), had finally been achieved at the Lawrence ...

Lithium-6 is essential for producing nuclear fusion fuel, but isolating it from the much more common isotope, lithium-7, usually requires liquid mercury, which is extremely toxic. Now, researchers ...

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 ...

Does Fusion produce radioactive nuclear waste the same way fission does? Nuclear fission power plants have the disadvantage of generating unstable nuclei; some of these are radioactive for millions of ...

Fusion reactions don’t create toxic waste. If there’s an accident then there’s no nuclear meltdown. The components required to power it can’t be repurposed into a nuclear weapon.

Nuclear fusion power will probably require vast quantities of enriched lithium – but we aren’t making nearly enough, and ramping up production will mean using toxic mercury ...

Physics & Chemistry Researchers in Texas Figure Out a Non-Toxic Method of Making Fuel for Nuclear Fusion Enriched Lithium is a critical ingredient in fusion reactors.

It’s the same process that powers the sun. While conventional nuclear power creates a large amount of long-lived and toxic nuclear wastes, a fusion-powered plant is expected to create almost none.

The Trump administration proposes budget cuts but singles out Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington state for continued cleanup funding.