controlled fusion
Harnessed solar process
Controlled fusion is nuclear fusion harnessed for practical energy production, as opposed to the uncontrolled fusion in hydrogen bombs.
Scientists have pursued controlled fusion for decades because it promises nearly limitless clean energy, but sustaining the extreme temperatures and pressures required remains an engineering challenge: Controlled fusion is always twenty years away, the joke goes.
- Lawson criterionMinimum conditions for fusion ignition
- tokamakPlasma confinement device
- nuclear reactionsTransformations within atomic nuclei
- magnetic confinementRestraining plasma via fields
- inertial confinementTrapping via rapid compression
clean energy · carbon neutrality · vacuum chambers · breakeven point · ignition point · heat exchangers · JET · helium-3
controlled fusionnuclear fission
Atomic core division
fission · fission reactor · atomic fission · splitting the atom
controlled fusionhydrogen bomb
Thermonuclear fusion weapon
H-bomb · thermonuclear weapon · fusion bomb · nuclear explosion · solar fusion
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