Nuclear fusion
Nuclear fusion involves the joining of two small atomic nuclei into one nucleus and producing energy in the process, it is considered as the sam process by which stars form. It has long been seen as one of the most promising sources of future energy because it requires far less input energy than fisson. It is not commercially available but reserach and developmentcontinues and something considered to be a major break through came in early 2022. A UK laboratory successfully beat it own record for the amount of energy it could extract by squeezing together two forms of hydrogen. which was 59 megajoules of energy over five seconds (11 megawatts of power).
The Energy White Paper, Powering our Net Zero Future (CP 337), published in December 2020 by HM Government, defines nuclear fusion as: '...the process that powers the sun: the fusing of hydrogen atoms into helium, which releases large amounts of energy. Scientists are developing technology to use this process to provide fusion energy, which could be clean, safe and inexhaustible with no long-lived radioactive waste.'
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