Crews at the Savannah River Site completed seven tritium extractions this fiscal year, more than doubling previous records and satisfying Department of Defense demands. The extractions were ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Tennessee Valley Authority will meet this month to discuss increasing the irradiation of tritium-producing rods, which are shipped to the Savannah River Site ...

Fusion energy, particularly via the deuterium-tritium (D-T) reaction, holds great promise but remains heavily dependent on a limited global tritium supply. To support future fusion reactors, in-situ ...

Dongming Xie, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell Jerome Delhommelle, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Lowell In the ...

BRATTLEBORO -- Extraction of tritiated water from the ground beneath Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon was restarted on Dec. 30. The contaminated water is being extracted from two new wells ...

AIKEN, S.C. -- A new facility that will produce tritium, a key component for all U.S. thermonuclear weapons, is running 25 percent over cost and almost a year behind schedule, possibly endangering the ...

Japan-based Kyoto Fusioneering has begun testing a new hydrogen recovery system, a critical step toward solving one of the ...