Nuclear fusion is already a reality
Nuclear fusion is already a reality
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This is one of the great dreams of science and humanity, many scientists from various nations are working as part of the international thermonuclear experimental reactor project known by its acronym in English ITER, which is building a huge reactor in the south of France, this project is a collaboration of 35 countries whose seven main members are nothing more and nothing less than china, the european union, india, japan, south korea, russia and the usa. practically we can say that the entire planet is united in achieve the objective of ITER, which is practical nuclear fusion and thus achieve a large-scale energy source, without CO2 emissions and without radioactive waste, it will be the first fusion facility capable of producing net energy and maintaining the fusion process for long periods of time, something that is currently a difficult challenge to achieve.
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And a huge step towards achieving these goals is the new world record reached in China with a plasma temperature of 120 million degrees Celsius and also maintained it for 101 seconds, unlike what the reactors of nuclear power plants do that get the energy dividing the atoms, normally uranium or plutonium atoms in particular to be exact uranium 235, plutonium 239 to that process of division of atoms that nuclear power plants do is called fission.
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Plasma is formed inside the reactor, which is a state of matter different from those we know on a daily basis, which are liquid, solid and gaseous. Visually, plasma is a fluid state similar to the gaseous state, but in which part of the particles that compose it are ionized, that is, they are electrically charged, that is why it is also said that plasma is an ionized gas, plasma is very abundant in the universe, it is the state in which matter is found in stars, it can be composed of any element and it does not necessarily have to be hot, but for the fusion process that interests us, the plasma has to be made of hydrogen and be at extremely high temperatures.
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Imagining a future in which each city had its own sun, without depending on polluting energy sources that were limited or located in territories that are now the cause of wars or disputes between nations, fusion uses hydrogen that can be extracted from water, fusion acts on a few atoms in the same way that a small amount of uranium is used to supply a fission plant, a small amount of hydrogen is enough to supply a fusion reactor and we are talking about hydrogen, so the reserves are practically unlimited.
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Really scary technological advancement...
Well yes, especially in whose hands it is found.!!
True...but my major concern would be a failure in the containment system, such could spell the END OF THE WORLD!!!
Don't worry, that's not the biggest problem, if you stop supplying it with deuterium or material for fusion, it turns off.