What is fusion energy?

Fusion energy is the extraction of energy from bonds between particles in the nuclei atoms by connecting these cores together. In order to obtain the most energy, light elements and isotopes such as hydrogen, deuterium, tritium and helium must be used, although each element with an atomic number is lower than iron can produce clean energy during fusion. The merger is unlike fission, which is a process in which energy is generated by the distribution of heavy cores such as uranium or plutonium. Both are considered nuclear energy, but cleavage is easier and better developed. All current nuclear power plants work on the basis of fission energy, but many scientists hope that fusion-based power plant will be developed before 2050. Conventional A-bombs are based on cleavage, while H-bombs or hydrogen bombs are based on fusion. The fusion more efficiently transforms into energy, produces more heat and temperature when the process is directed into a chain reaction. H-bombs therefore have higher yields than a-bombs, inSome cases more than 5,000 times higher. H-bombs use "booster" cleavage to achieve the desired temperature for nuclear fusion, which is approximately 20 million degrees of Kelvin. In the H-bomb, approximately 1% of the reaction mass is converted directly into energy.

Fusion energy, not cleavage, is the energy that drives the sun and produces all heat and light. In the middle of the sun, approximately 4.26 million tonnes of hydrogen per second is converted to energy and produces 383 Yottawatt (3.83 × 10 2,15 × 10 10 megatons TNT in a second. It sounds like a lot, but in fact it is quite mild with regard to the overall weight and volume of the sun. The rate of energy production in the core of the Sun is only about 0.3 W/m

3 (watts on a cubic meter), more than a million times weaker than the energy production that takes place in the thread of the bulb. Just because the core is so huge, with an equivalent diameter20 countries, generate so much overall energy.

For several decades, scientists have been working on using fusion energy for human needs, but this is difficult due to high temperatures and pressures. Using fusion energy, a fuel size unit can produce as much energy as the barrel barrel. Unfortunately, all attempts to produce Energy Fusion have consumed more energy since 2008 than they created. There are two basic approaches - use magnetic fields to compress plasma to critical temperature (magnetic imprisonment) or fire lasers at the finish so intense that they heat it around the critical threshold for fusion (inertial fusion). Both of these approaches have received considerable funds with the nation of Al Ignition (NIF) seeking to fusion inertial imprisonment and comes online in 2010 and international thermonuclear experimental reactor (iter) seeks to fusion of magnetic imprisonment and comes online in 2018.

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