Nuclear Reactions / Fusion

• Fusion has been described as the chemistry of the sun and stars.

• It too has been used in weapons. It has not yet found a peaceful commercial application

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• The application has great promise in producing relatively “clean” abundant energy through the combination of Hydrogen isotopes particularly from 2H, deuterium and 3H, tritium: (NIF/National Ignition Facility, LLNL)

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