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Will We Ever Get Fusion Power? - by Brian Potter

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“Every one of the stars in the sky uses fusion to generate enormous amounts of energy. Why shouldn’t we?” – The Future of Fusion Energy Today all nuclear power reactors are driven by fission reactions, which release energy by splitting atoms apart. But there’s another nuclear reaction that’s potentially even more promising as an energy source: nuclear fusion. Unlike fission, fusion releases energy by combining atoms together. Fusion is what powers the sun and other stars, as well as the incredibly destructive hydrogen bomb. It’s not hard to understand the appeal of using nuclear fusion as a source of energy. Unlike coal or gas, which rely on exhaustible sources of fuel extracted from the earth, fusion fuel is effectively limitless. A fusion reactor could theoretically be powered entirely by deuterium (an isotope of hydrogen with an extra neutron), and there’s enough deuterium in seawater to power the entire world at current rates of consumption for 26 billion years. Fusion has many of

Will We Ever Get Fusion Power? Brian Potter Jun 26, 2024 300 89 33 Share “Every one of the stars in the sky uses fusion to generate enormous amounts of energy. Why shouldn’t we?” – The Future of Fusion Energy Today all nuclear power reactors are driven by fission reactions, which release energy by splitting atoms apart. But there’s another nuclear reaction that’s potentially even more promising as an energy source: nuclear fusion. Unlike fission, fusion releases energy by combining atoms together. Fusion is what powers the sun and other stars, as well as the incredibly destructive hydrogen bom

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