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Marathon fusion claims to invent alchemy, making 5000 kgs gold per gigawatt
Solving the grand challenge of alchemy
In deuterium-tritium fusion, high-energy neutrons drive "multiplication" reactions to close the fuel cycle by producing the tritium needed to sustain operation. — Dr. Ahmed Diallo, Principal Research Physicist and Distinguished Research Fellow at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) Marathon's techno-economic modeling suggests that fusion plants could create as much economic value from gold production as they do from electricity production, potentially doubling the value of these facilities, radically transforming the economics of fusion and of energy more broadly. Even beyond gold, the possibilities are abundant: creating other precious metals like palladium, synthesizing medical isotopes at scale, and producing materials for nuclear batteries.
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