Chinese commercial reactor achieves nuclear fusion with clean hydrogen-boron fuel

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"In a first, a Chinese company has achieved high-parameter hydrogen-boron plasma control, marking a “significant and valuable” advance in research into neutron-free magnetic confinement fusion. ...

Unlike deuterium-tritium (D-T) fuel, the primary fuel used in mainstream fusion research, hydrogen-boron fusion does not produce high-energy neutrons as its primary product. Instead a hydrogen proton fuses with a boron-11 nucleus. The reaction releases energy and produces alpha particles, or helium nuclei. ..."

Chinese commercial reactor achieves nuclear fusion with clean hydrogen-boron fuel | South China Morning Post (behind paywall)

Chinese tokamak achieves hydrogen-boron fusion with 100 million reactions a second "A clean energy firm in China has just achieved hydrogen-boron fusion reactions in the EXL-50U spherical tokamak, the nation’s first medium-scale spherical torus experimental device, at a rate exceeding 100 million per second."

China's first medium-scale spherical torus experimental device, the EXL-50U.