Objects smaller than 13 Jupiter masses can not sustain
any kind of nuclear fusion in their cores, so Zapatero Osorio and her colleagues believe they should be called planets.
Not exact matches
This is especially important for formulating
fusion and new
kinds of fission
nuclear power plants.
Whatever Martin and Stan had found and made public was not a cold version
of «hot
fusion», the
kind familiar to
nuclear physicists.
For decades scientists have sought to generate clean energy by instigating the
kind of sustained
nuclear fusion reactions that power the sun.
You have those, you
kind of solve a lot
of the blanket problems where you have your
fusion blast in the center and then it hits a blanket which is basically
nuclear waste, depleted waste, and there's a lot
of left over energy in that waste; and you have neutrons hit that waste and then that catalyzes further reactions, you get a lot more heat.
According to theory, that is the
kind that should be generated by the
nuclear fusion of hydrogen in the sun.