Sentences with phrase «nuclear fusion»

A star shines by producing its own light from nuclear fusion in its dense, hot core.

The goal in all this is to create the elusive «burn,» a self - sustaining nuclear fusion reaction that produces more energy than is used by the laser beams.

Because energy is required to power these chemical transformations, there is less available to raise the temperatures inside the bubble to the intensity required for nuclear fusion to occur.

The result may help to control nuclear fusion reactors.

For decades scientists have been trying to make nuclear power from nuclear fusion.

Pour the money wasted on mitigating CO2 into nuclear fusion research.

Do you have the materials necessary to achieve nuclear fusion lying around the house?

In eighth grade, he did a project on nuclear fusion.

Gas and dust accumulated at the center increase the gravity and density of the core which generates energy to trigger nuclear fusion at 15 million degrees Celsius.

Some believe that with nuclear fusion unlimited sources of energy will be ours and that we can chemically alter the earth's matter so as to replace exhausted resources with others.

Understanding this instability is key to some experimental nuclear fusion reactions but it has never been observed for high - frequency radio waves.

The total amount of energy that a star can generate through nuclear fusion of hydrogen is limited by the amount of hydrogen fuel that can be consumed at the core.

At this point its core temperature reaches the point where carbon starts to undergo nuclear fusion.

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source.

All we have to do is make nuclear fusion work — and that, as they say, is left as an exercise for the students.

Although nuclear fusion offers the potential of significant amounts of energy for the future, it is expensive to research and develop into a stable power generation source.

Frankly, discovering the secret to nuclear fusion seemed more likely.

Oh - and in case anyone else is confused — I discovered a new nuclear fusion energy source and named it after myself.

However, nuclear fusion development continues to struggle due to inconsistent funding and a lack of long - term vision among many policy makers.

And if we can do that, there might be nothing stopping us from unlocking nuclear fusion, a theoretically limitless source of clean, safe power that could solve all our climate woes.

But so far, generating an endless supply of energy from nuclear fusion only exists in the movies.

In a world with increasing energy demand nuclear fusion can play a role as it has the potential to be a sustainable and powerful electricity source free of CO2 emissions.

Such powerful magnetic fields are required to keep the explosive nuclear fusion reactions contained.

It's more in the category of the people who predicted in 1960 that we'd all have flying cars (or at least nuclear fusion) by now.

We found out that stars do nuclear fusion in their cores, generating heat and light, and as part of that process, heavier elements are created.

The amount of fuel available for nuclear fusion is proportional to the mass of the star.

One possibility is a rocket powered by nuclear fusion, essentially a sequence of hydrogen bombs.

Before we understood the process of nuclear fusion, we were off by orders of magnitude.

However, because of the brown dwarf's small mass, the core does not become hot enough to sustain nuclear fusion, the main source of a star's energy.

A mass of gas falling rapidly into a black hole is estimated to give off more than 100 times as much energy as is released by the identical amount of mass through nuclear fusion.

I get the impression you are mixing up the «hydrogen economy» with nuclear fusion.

For example, the plasmas used in laboratories and nuclear fusion plants decay within milliseconds of the power being switched off.

Upon reaching a suitable density, energy generation is begun at the core using an exothermic nuclear fusion process that converts hydrogen into helium.

The biggest winners would be advanced scientific computing research, which supports DOE's supercomputing efforts, and fusion energy sciences, which supports effort to harness nuclear fusion as a source of energy.

Scientists have reported that by bombarding a liquid with sound they were able to produce nuclear fusion in a tabletop apparatus.

Even if we finally achieve the dream of controlled nuclear fusion on Earth, it will carry an environmental cost

In 1931 he gave specific figures about nuclear fusion as a source of energy far superior to nuclear fission.

When the gas is dense enough to squeeze atoms together and ignite nuclear fusion, a star is born.

NIF has three purposes: To further our basic understanding of stars, to determine how the United States» aging nuclear weapons are holding up without engaging in underground testing, and to explore the enormous potential of nuclear fusion power plants.

An American research team in January discovered a way to initiate nuclear fusion reactions in a process called «fast ignition» by using a high - intensity laser, according to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

«We've shown that the direct - drive method, is on par with other work being done in advancing nuclear fusion research,» said Bose.