This would be a cleaner safer more efficient and more abundant source of power than nuclear fission. It s the same type of reaction that powers hydrogen bombs and the sun. In a fusion reactor hydrogen atoms come together to form helium atoms neutrons and vast amounts of energy.
It differs significantly from nuclear fission which has been our only way of getting electricity from atoms since the. Nuclear fusion is an attempt to replicate the processes of the sun on earth. That is problematic because it is harder to extract the energy from neutrons compared to charged particles.
A large amount of energy is released by nuclear fusion reactions it seems that for power generation the deuterium tritium reaction is the most practical but it provides most of the energy to the released neutron. Fusion processes require fuel and a confined environment with sufficient temperature. Devices designed to harness this energy are known as fusion reactors.
Fusion power is a proposed form of power generation that would generate electricity by using heat from nuclear fusion reactions in a fusion process two lighter atomic nuclei combine to form a heavier nucleus while releasing energy. The vast energy potential of nuclear fusion was first exploited in thermonuclear. In cases where the interacting nuclei belong to elements with low atomic numbers e g hydrogen atomic number 1 or its isotopes deuterium and tritium substantial amounts of energy are released.
Nuclear fusion process by which nuclear reactions between light elements form heavier elements up to iron. Nuclear fusion is a reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei are combined to form one or more different atomic nuclei and subatomic particles neutrons or protons the difference in mass between the reactants and products is manifested as either the release or absorption of energy this difference in mass arises due to the difference in atomic binding energy between the atomic nuclei.
