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2. Aneutronic fusion !!
Thu Jul 3, 2025, 01:18 PM
Jul 3
Helion Energy, Inc. is an American fusion research company, located in Everett, Washington.[2] They are developing a magneto-inertial fusion technology to produce helium-3 and fusion power via aneutronic fusion,[3][4] which could produce low-cost clean electric energy using a fuel that can be derived exclusively from water.[5]

Helion uses a combination of deuterium and 3
He as fuel. Deuterium and 3He allows mostly aneutronic fusion, releasing only 5% of its energy in the form of fast neutrons. Commercial 3He is rare and expensive. Instead Helion produces 3He by deuteron–deuteron (D–D) side reactions to the deuterium – 3He reactions. D–D fusion has an equal chance of producing a 3He atom and of producing a tritium atom plus a proton. Tritium beta decays into more 3He with a half-life of 12.32 years. Helion plans to capture the 3He produced this way and reuse it as fuel. Helion has a patent on this process.[15]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helion_Energy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion

Another one is based on abundant B11, which gives off three alpha particles for direct electricity conversion and they turn into regular He rapidly.

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