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 ...

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

Since tritium is radioactive, rare, and expensive to source, fusion facilities set up breeder reactors where the isotope is produced by bombarding lithium blankets with neutrons. Lithium isotopes ...

“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.

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 ...

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 ...