Lithium-6 is a crucial material for nuclear fusion reactors, but isolating it is challenging – now researchers have found a ...

So Jarrott and his Focused Energy colleague Jacob Peterson decided to set off on their own, founding Hexium with an eye ...

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 ...

For research and evaluations requiring fast neutrons fluences with minimal slow neutrons and gamma ray components, a range-thick, metallic lithium target is bombarded with protons from the 5.5 MV ...

“BNCT requires epithermal neutrons, and they are best obtained by irradiating a lithium target with a low energy, high current proton beam. But at that time, there was no suitable proton ...

Through detailed calculations of proton interactions with lithium-6 nuclei, the model adeptly forecasts the release of diverse particles, such as neutrons, protons, deuterons, 3 He, and alpha.

Lithium exists in natural sources mainly as the isotope Li-7. Just 7.5% occurs as Li-6, which is critical for nuclear fusion. Bombarding Li-6 with neutrons generates the hydrogen isotope tritium ...

Because low-energy neutrons carry no electrical charge, they don’t damage the cells they pass through. The cancer-killing effects of BNCT arises from the destructive alpha and lithium particles ...