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UK firm achieves first commercial tritium breakthrough for fusion fuel
Astral Systems has achieved a major milestone by producing tritium, essential for sustainable fusion power.
“There’s a global race to find new ways to develop more tritium than what exists in today’s world – a huge barrier is bringing fusion energy to reality,” said Talmon Firestone, CEO and co-founder of Astral Systems. This design reduces the energy needed to overcome the Coulomb barrier between particles, which lowers required fusion temperatures by several million degrees and allows for higher performance in a compact size. Professor Tom Scott, who led the University of Bristol’s team, supported by the Royal Academy of Engineering and UK Atomic Energy Authority, concluded, “We’re now pushing to quickly optimise our system to further enhance our tritium breeding capability.”
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