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darthdiablo t1_iwi2r8l wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in A typical thought process by Kaarssteun

Yeah - unless I'm mistaken, I thought it was more like we know how fusion works, the problem is it's a matter of figuring (engineering) how we can make fusion happen on a smaller (non-stellar-scale) level?

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Nieshtze t1_iwihufm wrote

It is easy to perform fusion in a non-stellar scale. They did that in the 50s with hydrogen bombs.

The challenge is controlling the reaction.

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[deleted] t1_iwij5em wrote

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-ZeroRelevance- t1_iwimwko wrote

Hydrogen bombs are a mix of fission and fusion. They create an explosion like a standard atomic bomb using fission, which superheats the hydrogen in the bomb to initiate a fusion reaction, which increases the energy output manyfold.

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