NEWS

Recently, A team at the Joint European Torus (JET) facility near Oxford in central England generated 59 megajoules of sustained energy during an experiment in December, more than doubling a 1997 record

NUCLEAR FUSION

WHAT – Two or more atomic nuclei fuse to form a single heavier nucleus

OTHER DETAILS

• The nucleus made by fusion is heavier than either of the starting nuclei.
• It releases a large amount of energy.
• Fusion is what powers the sun. Atoms of Tritium and Deuterium (isotopes of hydrogen, Hydrogen-3 and Hydrogen-2, respectively) unite under extreme pressure and temperature to produce a neutron and a helium isotope.
• Along with this, an enormous amount of energy is released, which is several times the amount produced by fission.
• Scientists continue to work on controlling nuclear fusion in an effort to make a fusion reactor to produce electricity.