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Fusion is putting together (atoms ... usually hydrogen atoms),

Fission is the breaking apart of atoms.

And fusion requires high energy to occur because it requires the nucleus of atoms to touch (collide) - not an easy thing to do (basically impossible using only chemical energy).

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