Key takeaways:

A fusion plant has to supply its own tritium, a rare fuel.

One approach: making tritium inside a blanket of molten salt that wraps around the hot fusion plasma.

Getting that tritium out of the salt depends on chemistry too complex for classical computers to model accurately.

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, IBM, and Cleveland Clinic used a quantum-centric workflow to simulate it, matching the most demanding classical methods.