Know anything about nuclear fusion?

Question

I learned about it in science and I want to know more about it it sounds facinating! Does anybody here by any chance work to find a way to make it happen on earth?

Answer 1

The technology has been 20 years away for about 60 years now. Yes scientists and technologist are working on it. The problems are: containment : how do you keep hold of something too hot to hold? and contamination: how do you avoid burning whats holding it since the burning will contaminate and stop the reaction? Right now they're working on using magnetic fields to hold the plasma and lasers to hold the plasma.

Answer 2

we have already found a way of making it work on earth. the biggest problem is we cant control it, and it causes an aproximately 50 megaton (largest ever) explosion which shockwave will travel around the earth three times.

the hydrogin bomb is nuclear fusion. it work by causing radioactive material to have a fission reaction, which will produce so much energy and heath it will cause hydrogin also onboard, to go into fusion. this releases so much energy it s about 5000 times more deadly than hte hiroshima bomb.

as of yet, we have found no other application for nuclear fusion, well other than tanning ofcourse :)

Answer 3

There is major research into getting a commercial reactor using fusion, but there are many problems to overcome. The largest project has been the JET project in the UK. ITER is due to be built soon and should take us closer to achieving a fusion reactor. Check out these sites...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_European_Torus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_confinement

It already has worked on Earth... The nuclear bomb!

Answer 4

I do. Do you have any specific questions?