Marathon Fusion successfully achieves the alchemy of 'turning mercury into gold,' potentially disrupting gold fundamentals in the medium to long term.

BlockBeats news, October 22 - U.S. private nuclear fusion startup Marathon Fusion announced this morning that it has successfully achieved high-efficiency alchemy: converting mercury into real, stable gold. According to its video introduction, Marathon Fusion uses beam-driven fusion technology to convert mercury-198 into mercury-197, which decays into stable gold-197 after about 64 hours; it can simultaneously breed tritium and generate electricity. Under laboratory simulation conditions, it shows that each GWth can produce approximately over 2 tons of gold per year, potentially doubling the economic value of the power plant.

In response, market analysis pointed out that the technology is still in the small-scale laboratory demonstration stage, with output far from commercial scale, so it has almost no substantial impact on gold in the short term. However, if the technology matures and is commercialized in the future, it theoretically has the potential to disrupt the fundamentals of gold.

Public information shows that Marathon Fusion is a private nuclear fusion startup located in San Francisco, USA, founded in 2023. The company focuses on full-stack nuclear fusion research and is committed to solving the fuel cycle problems of fusion reactors.