Boron attracted attention for a while because ... Although the thermally unstable boranes seemed far from ideal as fuels or fuel additives, the USA and USSR invested millions of dollars and ...
Despite much investigation as a rocket fuel, the full potential of boron has never been realised. It could get another chance to shine, thanks to a better understanding of the role impurities play ...
Nuclear fission reactors struggle with two key problems: poor fuel utilization and complicated radioactive waste handling. To ...
However, researchers do not fully understand how a boron coating might impact the amount of fusion fuel that leaves the plasma and becomes embedded in the vessel walls. "Understanding how boron ...
If you go over the limit, that's a showstopper." Interestingly, the researchers say the main cause of the trapped fuel isn't the boron coating. It's carbon. Even small amounts of carbon increased ...
Russia's A.I. Leypunsky Institute of Physics and Power Engineering has begun tests to study the neutron-physical ...
However, researchers do not fully understand how a boron coating might impact the amount of fusion fuel that leaves the plasma and becomes embedded in the vessel walls. "Understanding how boron ...
SILICON VALLEY, CA / ACCESS Newswire / March 12, 2025 / Recently, ENN Group, a Chinese enterprise, has published 13 papers in ...
Fusion & Fuel Efficiency Nuclear Fusion is potentially the ultimate green energy source, producing no dangerous byproducts, radioactivity (the only “waste” is helium), or greenhouse gases. And it ...
In a business solutions features, material science, researchers at the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, ...