For reasons of safety and sanity, [Dan] isn’t running his fusor at a high enough voltage to actually fuse deuterium into helium. This is really just a beautiful, glowey demonstration of what can ...

When two deuterium nuclei are fused together, they form a helium nucleus (two protons and two neutrons) that weighs less than two deuterium nuclei. As in uranium fission the weight loss turns into ...

The deuterium gas is heated and confined by the cathode and fuses into Helium. The electrostatic confinement of the plasma isn’t very much different from some old CRT tubes. This isn’t a ...

such as proton-boron or deuterium-helium-3 reactions. "Fusion energy research is currently experiencing a significant surge ...

The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time ...

Founded in 2013 and supported by early contract from ARPA-E, Helion is working on a pulsed fusion electricity generator using deuterium and helium-3 as a fuel. The latter is extremely rare and ...

Fusion & Fuel Efficiency Nuclear Fusion is potentially the ultimate green energy source, producing no dangerous byproducts, radioactivity (the only “waste” is helium), or greenhouse gases. And it ...

More information: David C. Catling et al, Potential technosignature from anomalously low deuterium/hydrogen (D/H) in planetary water depleted by nuclear fusion technology, arXiv (2024). DOI: 10. ...

Inside the reactor, deuterium and tritium nuclei collide and fuse, releasing helium and neutrons. (Image: IAEA/M. Barbarino) While the sun’s massive gravitational force naturally induces fusion, ...

The Deuterium (D) – Tritium (T ... It produces an alpha particle (or Helium-4 nucleus) and a neutron, and releases 17.6 megaelectron volt (MeV) of energy in the form of kinetic energy of the products ...