Washington-based fusion energy company Helion just raised US$425 million in fresh funding for its bid to be the first to ...

It's essentially the same concept as how the Sun works: You use hydrogen plasmas to fuse heavier elements like helium. But the fusion reactors on Earth use deuterium and tritium, an unstable ...

Deuterium-tritium fusion also creates radioactive byproducts that have to be disposed of periodically. Helium 3’s main advantage as a fusion fuel is that it creates little or no radioactive ...

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 ...

According to TechCrunch, Helion will use its $425 million funding round to upgrade its manufacturing capabilities. The ...

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

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 ...

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 ...