Sentences with phrase «fuels nuclear fusion reactions»

All stars, including our sun, will eventually run out of the hydrogen gas that fuels the nuclear fusion reactions in their cores.

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Achieving fusion — nuclear reactions that have the potential to produce copious, clean energy — requires heating hydrogen fuel to more than 100 million degrees Celsius, causing it to become an ionized gas or plasma.

Some scientists propose creating power sources and electricity by igniting fusion reactions with lasers that trigger nuclear fission that can consume spent nuclear fuel.

As the star dies, the nuclear fusion reactions stop because the fuel for these reactions gets used up.

Fusion remains the holy grail of clean energy research, because the fusion reaction generates new elements that are not radioactive, unlike nuclear fission which leaves us with hazardous fuel wastes that require generations of management.