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Anonymous
What is Fusion?
>> Anonymous
A + B = C +/- energy
>> Anonymous
12C + ¹H ? 13N + ?
13N ? 13C + e+ + v
13C + ¹H ? 14N + ?
14N + ¹H ? 15O + ?
15O ? 15N + e+ + v
15N + ¹H ? 12C + 4He
>> Anonymous
>>287192
it sounds like my mothers pancakes whit jam
>> Anonymous
mine too
>> Anonymous
>>287202
Nice wikipedia usage.
>> Anonymous
holly fuck 4 chan is smart
>> Anonymous
baby don't hurt me
>> Anonymous
>>287233

don't hurt me
>> Anonymous
>>287237
no more
>> Anonymous
A miserable little pile of secrets! But enough talk... Have a hadron collision!
>> Anonymous
>>287226
Smart? Well-educated, perhaps. Perhaps.
>> Anonymous
It's a nuclear reaction in which one Deuterium atom with one Tritium comes together in a magnetic bottle and then produces plasma energy, resulting also producing helium as "waste".
>> Anonymous
>>287441

Anonymous: not an idiot.
>> Anonymous
FUUUU-SIOOONNNNNNN
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>> Anonymous
Fusion is when 2 things become 1.

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>> Anonymous
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It when trunks combines with goten, "gotenks" is formed as a waste product. Much energy bonus is garnered from this. And this is how the sun gets its laser beams.
>> Anonymous
Sounds about right
>> Anonymous
Fusion is combining two hydrogen atoms to create helium + energy(because the overall mass decreases a tiny bit, e=mc^2 means energy is given off), however they normaly repel each other so they have to be heated up to a plasma first to get enough energy to overcome the repulsion, hence the torus in the op is used to hold them in a vacuum with a magnetic field.
>> Anonymous
>>287605

eight-year-old's should not have abs like that. :(
>> Anonymous
>>287441

Deuterium and Tritium are both "forms" of hydrogen btw, they dont give off "plasma energy", they have to be heated to a plasma before they will combine.
>> Anonymous
fusion is whatever i looked up on google to make myself appear smart
>> Anonymous
Fusion could be the solution for our energy problems.
In contrast to nuclear fission, a fusion does produce any radioactive material, is a lot more stable and easier to control and gives much more energy.
However, as anon has already stated, in order to get the fusion started you have to invest a whole lot of energy. Thus fusion is up to this point in no way a profitable way to gain energy.
However currently there is a huge project in the South of France going on, with various countries investing millions of Dollars in the research of fusion.
>> Anonymous
>>287715
Most nuclear arms already use fusion.
>> Anonymous
>>287718
Yeah, of course. H-bombs.
But you wouldn't want to use H-bombs to run your power plant, now would you?
>> Anonymous
>>287719
"My" power plant?
I have one of those?

PS: I've just discovered I own a power plant, brb going to make it run on hydrogen bombs.
>> Anonymous
Fusion is the 16th episode (production #117) of the television series Enterprise.
>> Anonymous
>>287715

Not quite right. Fusion is in no way more stable than fission. If the plasma in a fusion reactor touches the reactor wall for any amount of time the wall will pretty much instantly disintegrate.

And to say no radioactive material is produced is pretty silly. What do you think your doing? millions of energetic protons, neutrons, and electrons would be released if the reactor was running for any amount of time. Many of the particles would end up being absorbed into the reactor wall, compromising wall safety and making the materials radioactive.

Even the reactor they are currently builing in France (the OP's picture, called ITER) will only run for a maximum 4 minutes at a time. If your expecting fusion energy to be the wave of the future.... you might want to think again. Until we have the materials to contain ridiculously hot plasma for a sustained amount of time, we will not be able to use fusion for large scale energy production.
>> Anonymous
>>287715

Unless by "stable", you meant there was no way for the reaction to continue being self-sustained if there were to be a reactor meltdown. If a fusion reactor melts down, the fusion reaction will pretty much stop immediately. If a fission reactor melts down, you get a cool explosion.
>> Anonymous
>>287895

You're not quite right either. The wall will not disintegrate, the plasma will dissipate, hence the need for magnetic bottles. The plasma is extremely tenuous.
>> Anonymous
so then whats the god damn point in investing so much time and resources into a type of energy which appears to be obsolete when comparred to fission. theres got to be more then just whats being talked about on 4chan...wait this is 4chan why are we having a conversation that might actually be relavent or increase knowledge.
>> Anonymous
anon is right quickly post tits!
>> Anonymous
So until we have a way of either resisting several thousand to millions of degrees or can make the magnetic containment so the plasma doesn't touch any surface, fusion is just a very expensive hobby. Hopefully it will work, just not any time soon.
>> Anonymous
The internal parts of any fusion reactor will become irradiated. Every so often this stuff will need to be replaced.

There is no way in hell to contain the plasma with materials. The moment the plasma touches any of the materials that form the Torus (This only applies to the pictured Tokamak reactor) it will ground out and the plasma will dissipate. I don't really remember, but I think it can ground out destructively or it can just ground out. The nice part is, when you stop feeding it fuel, the reaction slows, then dies. Rather quickly.

The only way you can really control the plasma is to use the magnetic properties and keep it from touching the walls of the chamber.

However, we don't have anything powerful enough to start a controllable reaction that actually gives off that enough power to actually make it worthwhile.
>> Anonymous
>>287718

Actually "fusion" bombs are triggered initially by a fission detonation trigger to get the necessary temperatures and pressures to iniate the runaway fusion reaction necessary for the Hydrogen bombs