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Fusion energy is created when nuclei are forced (or fused) together.
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Nuclei, in the form of a thin gas, are magnetically suspended and heated to 150 million° C in a donut shaped vacuum chamber. The nuclei snap together giving off energy and helium.
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Fusion (fusing nuclei) should not be confused with fission (splitting nuclei). Both processes utilize the strong nuclear force to produce energy but have significant differences. Two most prominent differences are ready to use technology (fission wins on that point,) and environmental safety (fusion has next to no radioactive waste or risk of melt-down).
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Some fusion systems promise to produce energy without steam turbines, generators, cooling towers, and other energy sapping devices that must be used with coal burning and fission power stations. But to accomplish this fuels such as the rare helium-3 at still hotter operating temperatures are needed.
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Is the sun a nuclear fusion reactor?
Yes, the sun is a nuclear fusion reactor.
How a fusion reactor would be similar to a fission reactor?
explain how a fusion reactor would be similar to a fission reaction
Which of planets is an immense fusion reactor in space?
The Sun is an immense fusion reactor in space. It generates energy through nuclear fusion reactions at its core, converting hydrogen into helium and releasing vast amounts of energy in the process.
What would be the source of fuel required by a fusion reactor?
Deutrium and tritium are needed as fuel in fusion reactor.
Is fusion controllable as fission is reactor?
no
Is a fusion reactor a time machine?
No
What is the idea behind polywell?
A polywell is a device that is used to electrical field work on ions, heating them to fusion conditions. It is a fusion reactor that uses a magnetic confinement to trap electrons.
What is better solar energy fission reactor or fusion reactor?
solar is a billion times better.
How does nuclear fusion spin a turbine?
It can't as nobody has figured out how to make a fusion reactor.
What date did the first fusion generator operate?
The first work on nuclear fusion was performed in 1933 by Ernest Rutherford. The first nuclear fusion "reactor" was built in 1947 by teams in the UK and USSR. To this day no nuclear fusion "reactor" has been able to produce more energy than had to be put into it to get the reaction started, despite many different experiments on many different designs.
Is the Sun an immense fusion reactor in space?
yeah, exactly
Can you make a real ark reactor?
An Ark reactor as currently describe in comic is very much like a Nuclear Fuel Cell. Possibly convert energy from Nuclear reaction to power. Possibly a plasma nuclear fusion reactor. I believe in the future it could be made. See the link and compare the similarity of fusion reactor and Ark reactor.
