In just the first 259 days of data collection, KATRIN, a beta-decay-based detector in Germany, has set the smallest upper ...

Neutrinos are among the most enigmatic particles in the universe. They are omnipresent yet interact extremely rarely with ...

Precision scale KATRIN at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology sets a new upper limit for the mass of neutrinos.

Lithium-6 is a crucial material for nuclear fusion reactors, but isolating it is challenging – now researchers have found a way to do this without using toxic mercury ...

Seattle's Avalanche Energy has plans for opening a first-of-its-kind facility for commercial-scale testing of fusion ...

New data establish an upper limit of 0.45 eV/c2 (equivalent to 8 x 10-37 kilograms) for the neutrino mass. KATRIN measures neutrino mass in the laboratory using a model-independent method.

The utility has been working to recover radioactive tritium from as much as 900,000 gallons of contaminated water that leaked ...

A mixture of deuterium and tritium — two hydrogen isotopes — will be used to fuel future fusion power plants. Inside the reactor, deuterium and tritium nuclei collide and fuse, releasing helium and ...

Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion reactors. The new approach doesn’t require toxic mercury, as conventional methods ...

With the current data from the KATRIN experiment, an upper limit of 0.45 electron volt/c 2 (corresponding to 8 x 10 -37 ...