{"id":240917,"date":"2026-07-15T08:11:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/quantum-computers-identify-nuclear-fusion-fuel-in-major-first"},"modified":"2026-07-15T08:11:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:11:53","slug":"quantum-computers-identify-nuclear-fusion-fuel-in-major-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/quantum-computers-identify-nuclear-fusion-fuel-in-major-first","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Computers Identify Nuclear Fusion Fuel in Major First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-computers-identify-nuclear-fusion-fuel-in-major-first.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A major barrier to harnessing energy via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/what-is-nuclear-fusion\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">nuclear fusion<\/a> is the fuel source.<\/p>\n<p>Most proposed fusion reactors (the donut-shaped tokamak reactors) are powered by the fusion of tritium and deuterium.<\/p>\n<p>Both are isotopes of hydrogen, but tritium is radioactive, and deuterium is stable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major barrier to harnessing energy via nuclear fusion is the fuel source. Most proposed fusion reactors (the donut-shaped tokamak reactors) are powered by the fusion of tritium and deuterium. Both are isotopes of hydrogen, but tritium is radioactive, and deuterium is stable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,873,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nuclear-energy","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}