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NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

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The deuterated erbium (chemical symbol ErD 3 ) is placed into thumb-size vials, as shown in this set of samples from a 20 June 2018 experiment. NASA Glenn Research Center , in Cleveland, are investigating whether this approach could one day provide enough power to operate small robotic probes on the surface of Mars, for example.

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