Sentences with phrase «hydrogen fusion takes»

Not exact matches

NIF's goal is to focus the intense energy of 192 giant laser beams on a BB - sized target filled with hydrogen fuel, fusing the hydrogen atoms» nuclei and releasing many times more energy than it took to initiate the fusion reaction.

Image: NIF Scientists with the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced today that they have achieved a critical step in fusion research: For the first time, their hydrogen fuel has given off more energy than it took in.

This «quarksplosion» would be an even more powerful subatomic analog of the individual nuclear fusion reactions that take place in the cores of hydrogen bombs.

Their mass is too small for full nuclear fusion of hydrogen to helium (with a consequent release of energy) to take place, but they are usually significantly more massive than planets.

Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) seeks to create those conditions by taking a tiny capsule of fusion fuel (typically a mixture of the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium) and crushing it at high speed using some form of «driver,» such as lasers, particle beams, or magnetic pulses.

It could weaken, particularly as its plutonium core bombards it with radiation over time, subsequently failing to contain the primary fission explosion long enough to generate the high temperatures needed for fusion to take place in creating the secondary hydrogen detonation.

Within the Sun's core, nuclear fusion reactions take place, with hydrogen nuclei being fused into helium nuclei.