Lithium comprises two isotopes. Lithium-6 has an enormous cross-section to capture slow neutrons, fissioning to tritium with a large energy yield.

They took advantage of the fact that lithium usually exists as a mixture of two isotopes: about 90% lithium7, which is transparent to neutron beams, and the remaining 10% lithium6, which strongly ...

Be7 (n,p)Li7 Reaction and the Cosmological Lithium Problem: Measurement of the Cross Section in a Wide Energy Range at n_TOF at CERN. Physical Review Letters, 2018; 121 (4) DOI: 10.1103 ...

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently carried out a study aimed at better understanding the origin of the exceptional neutron capture capabilities of the radioactive isotope ...

The CRP participants were able to measure, assess and evaluate neutron induced reaction cross sections for a set of minor actinides ( 234,236U, 237Np, 238,240,241,242Pu, 241,242,242m,243Am). These ...

Chemistry Nuclear fusion fuel could be made greener with new chemical process Lithium-6 is a crucial material for nuclear fusion reactors, but isolating it is challenging – now researchers have ...

Peripheral reactions of medium-mass nuclei in the Fermi energy regime (10-30 MeV/nucleon) offer a promising pathway for producing exotic neutron-rich isotopes and probing intricate reaction mechanisms ...

The international collaboration n_TOF, in which a group of University of Seville researchers participated, has made use of the unique capacities of three of the world’s nuclear facilities, such as PSI ...

The cosmological lithium problem Experts from the University of Seville have participated in an international research group that has tried to find a solution to this problem, one of the unknowns ...