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Unprecedented US nuclear fusion facility to solve critical tritium crisis for reactors
['Aman Tripathi']
Interesting Engineering
Working with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the firm plans to build a specialized testing facility called UNITY-3.
The main technical goal of UNITY-3 is to solve a major fuel problem in fusion energy.
UNITY-3 does this by placing a shell containing lithium around the fusion reaction.
Beyond hardware testing, UNITY-3 will also produce high-fidelity scientific data.
The second facility, UNITY-2 in Ontario, Canada, demonstrates a continuous tritium fuel processing loop in partnership with Canadian Nuclear Laboratories and Savannah River National Laboratory.