Richard Feynman, a famous theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize, said that if he could pass on only one piece of ...

Modern re-run shows that Arthur Ruhlig’s conclusions, which probably influenced early thinking about fusion energy, were ...

The researchers injected tiny frozen particles of deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen, into superfluid helium to make invisible quantum vortices visible.

A research team has achieved a significant breakthrough in determining fundamental properties of atomic nuclei. The team conducted laser spectroscopy experiments on muonic helium-3. Muonic helium ...

Charge radius of Helium-3 measured with unprecedented precision Research findings from the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence and the Paul Scherrer Institute published in Science Peer-Reviewed ...

The researchers had previously measured muonic helium-4 and, a few years ago, the atomic nucleus of muonic hydrogen and deuterium. Muonic helium-3: Twice as slimmed-down ...

Instead of fusing deuterium and tritium to make helium and neutrons, Sunbird uses a mix of deuterium and helium-3. For the mathematically minded and the masochistic, that's expressed by the ...

On Earth, scientists are aiming to fuse deuterium and tritium—both isotopes, or versions, of hydrogen. The Sunbird engines, however, would replace tritium with helium-3, a rare helium isotope.

This is different from the deuterium-tritium mix used in Earth-based fusion experiments. Helium-3 is rare and expensive, but it offers a unique advantage: instead of producing a stream of neutrons ...

Type One Energy established its headquarters in Hardin Valley last year to be near ORNL and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. It became the first recipient of Gov. Bill Lee's nuclear fund ...