Sun and nuclear fusion
Mike Garrett and NASANuclear fusion containment vessel on the left vs. the sun on the right. Fight!Atoms, the tiny structures that…
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The footage, which you can see above, is the first interior view of the disabled reactor unit 2, one of three reactors that failed…
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China scored a major coup this week when it announced that its engineers successfully created a hydrogen gas that is claimed to be…
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Credit: Eduard Dewald/LLNL If the world ran on nuclear fusion, the Earth could provide us with the resources to meet current energy…
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The experiments involve shooting 192 lasers from an apparatus the length of three football fields into a half-inch-long gold cylinder…
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Matter around us exists in three different states– solid, liquid and gas. There is one more state of matter called plasma. All states…
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Nuclear fusion involves two atomic nuclei joining to make a large [ nucleus : The central part of an atom. It contains protons and…
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An artist s conception of what the right half of the D-D tokamak looks like when energized with plasma. Fusion-fueled power generation…
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Public Domain Image, source: SOHO/ESA/NASA. The sun does not run out of oxygen for the simple fact that it does not use oxygen to burn…
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An erupting, massive star in the Milky Way. NASA s Hubble Space Telescope has identified one of the most massive stars known, emitting…
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In post-war USA, “Skunk Works” was Lockheed Martin’s near-autonomous research and development group that gave the country products…
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Nuclear fusion reactions involve the fusing of light elements (such as hydrogen) to form heavier ones (such as helium). Nuclear fusion…
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The U.S. D epartment of Energy (DoE) has announced that the world s biggest laser is ready to start blasting away after 12 years in…
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Physicists in Germany have used an experimental nuclear fusion device to produce hydrogen plasma in a process similar to what happens…
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GETTY Scientist working in a French nuclear fusion chamber Chinese experts last week successfully produced hydrogen gas more than three…
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The interior of the donut-shaped Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST). Hydrogen plasma is confined in this chamber…
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Spontaneous fission Fission reactions can happen spontaneously or when triggered by outside events. Spontaneous fission is a type of…
Read MoreBinding energy of tritium
Mass and energy are related to each other by the equation E = energy measured in joules (J) m = mass measured in kilograms (kg) c =…
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