Kasey Fernandez & Isaiah Fortune

Nuclear Fusion

Period #2


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Nuclear Fusion is the fusion of two elements with little atomic numbers (light nuclei), which results in the creation of a larger nucleus and a release energy. Nuclear fusion has the power to fuel the sun and the stars. Deuterium and tritium are two isotopes of hydrogen. Hydrogen bombs are when deuterium and tritium form a nucleus of helium and neutron. Unlike nuclear fission there is no limit of the fusion that can happen.


Stars are huge nuclear reactors. When nuclei are fused together by atomic collisions that the atomic structure and release a tremendous amount of energy. This is what makes the sun and stars so hot. In fusion, many nuclei, which is the middle of atoms, collide together to make a bigger ones. After that process, it releases a lot of energy. The energy results from a conversion of mass to energy, because the newly created nucleus has less mass than the original colliding nuclei. The missing mass is converted into energy during the nuclear reaction. The conversion demonstrates Einstein’s mass-energy conversion formula

E=mc2.

The most common nuclear fusion reaction is the nuclear reactions that provide the energy for the Sun and small stars. When the hydrogen runs out, elements that is heavy as iron are also made by nuclear fusion reactions in huge stars.


[[#|Reactions]] that make atoms heavier than iron only happen when there is a tremendous abundance of energy like when a massive star explodes.


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The difference between fission and fusion is that fission or an easier way is fiss means to break down. In Fission you start with the bigger object like uranium and end with a little object like strontium, calcium, barium, and stuff like that. Fusion or fuse you begin with the smaller objects like tritium or deuterium and start making a bigger object like helium. Fusion is a process of building and fission is the process of breaking down.

France's nuclear power reactors give 78 percent of the nation's electricity. The worlds average is 16 percent. It began just after World War II to help jumpstart in the new beginning and provide for national defense. Construction started after the oil embargo of 1973. Almost all of the country's 59 working reactors were built in the two decades in the years of 1974 and 1994, leaded by the goal of energy security


Nuclear Fusion is when nuclear energy is released by fusion of two elements with little atomic numbers. Nuclear fusion has the power to fuel the sun and the stars. Deuterium and tritium are two isotopes of hydrogen. Hydrogen bombs are when deuterium and tritium form a nucleus of helium and neutron. In nuclear fission there is no limit of the fusion that can happen.