EditThis timeline of nuclear fusion is an incomplete chronological summary of significant events in the study and use of nuclear fusion. 1920 Based on...
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Nuclear fusion is a reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei combine to form a larger nuclei, nuclei/neutron by-products. The difference in mass between...
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of the science surrounding nuclear fission and nuclear fusion. In addition to the scientific advancements, this timeline also includes several political...
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detailed timelines of nuclear weapons development or fusion experiments. 1925 On February 2, Patrick Blackett publishes experimental results of the first...
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Fusion ignition is the point at which a nuclear fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining. This occurs when the energy being given off by the reaction heats...
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of its three remaining nuclear power plants until April 2023. Timeline of nuclear power Timeline of nuclear weapons development Timeline of nuclear fusion...
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The history of nuclear fusion began early in the 20th century as an inquiry into how stars powered themselves and expanded to incorporate a broad inquiry...
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Timeline of particle discoveries (1800–present) Timeline of nuclear fusion (1929–present) Timeline of nuclear program of Iran (1956–present) Timeline...
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Nevada (outside of the NNSS/NTS), Colorado, Mississippi, and New Mexico. Includes all tests with potential for nuclear fission or fusion explosion, including...
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combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear weapon), producing a nuclear explosion. Both bomb types release large quantities of energy from...
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Experimental physics (redirect from History of experimental physics)
classical optics Timeline of gravitational physics and relativity Timeline of nuclear fusion Timeline of particle discoveries Timeline of particle physics...
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"In search of clean energy, investments in nuclear-fusion startups are heating up". Quartz. Retrieved February 4, 2019. "Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises...
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A nuclear weapon, also known as an atomic bomb, possesses enormous destructive power from nuclear fission, or a combination of fission and fusion reactions...
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fusion reactions. Presently, the vast majority of electricity from nuclear power is produced by nuclear fission of uranium and plutonium in nuclear power...
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Stellar nucleosynthesis (redirect from Nuclear fusion within stars)
creation of chemical elements by nuclear fusion reactions within stars. Stellar nucleosynthesis has occurred since the original creation of hydrogen,...
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DEMOnstration Power Plant (redirect from DEMO (fusion reactor))
class of nuclear fusion experimental reactors that are intended to demonstrate the net production of electric power from nuclear fusion. Most of the ITER...
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discovery and mechanism of nuclear fusion processes in stars, in his paper The Internal Constitution of the Stars. At that time, the source of stellar energy was...
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device. "Nuclear reactor" is predominantly used to refer to the nuclear fission reactor. It can also refer to a nuclear fusion reactor, of which only...
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possess nuclear weapons, though only eight formally acknowledge possessing them. Five are considered to be nuclear-weapon states (NWS) under the terms of the...
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of all "nuclear explosions". John Nuckolls, the Livermore scientist credited as one of the pioneers of the field of ICF, himself described the fusion...
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fission reactors that produce more fissile nuclear fuel than they consume (breeder reactors, and if developed, fusion power) among conventional renewable energy...
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W88 (redirect from W-88 nuclear warhead)
causes nuclear fusion in the secondary stage, which results in the main explosion. Although the weapon employs fusion in the secondary, most of the explosive...
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power plants. The CFETR utilises and intends to build upon pre-existing nuclear fusion research from the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)...
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aimed to build a commercial practical fusion power plant by 2050. List of commercial nuclear reactors List of nuclear power stations Release, Press (16 December...
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This is the timeline of the nuclear program of Iran. 1957: The United States and Iran sign a civil nuclear co-operation agreement as part of the U.S. Atoms...
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Polywell (redirect from Polywell Fusion Reactor)
Production Stellarator Timeline of nuclear fusion Tokamak TAE Technologies Z-pinch (zeta pinch) Thorson, Timothy A. (1996). Ion flow and fusion reactivity characterization...
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Helion Energy (category Fusion power companies)
American fusion research company, located in Everett, Washington. They are developing a magneto-inertial fusion technology to produce helium-3 and fusion power...
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The timeline of quantum mechanics is a list of key events in the history of quantum mechanics, quantum field theories and quantum chemistry. 1801 – Thomas...
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Tokamak (redirect from Tokamak fusion)
deuterium or other atoms. This allowed them to measure the nuclear cross section of various fusion reactions, and determined that the deuterium–deuterium...
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spectrum similar to that expected at the first wall of a fusion reactor using a deuterium-lithium nuclear reaction. The IFMIF project was started in 1994...
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