Would have been nice if this happened many years ago before Y-12 spilled or lost 24 million pounds of mercury. It is the only place I had to wear a respirator for mercury in a building being remediated. The COLEX process is a chemical method of isotopic separation of lithium-6 and lithium-7, based on the use of mercury.
Nuclear fusion fuel without toxic mercuryhttps://cen.acs.org/energy/nuclear-power/Nuclear-fusion-fuel-without-toxic/103/web/2025/03