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Intro. Fusion by: Tremaine Scott, Declan Goff, and Mai Ying Xiong. Hello I’m Fusion. I’m the compound of two atoms and turning into one atom. However my power has not been mastered to use in everday life. What is Fusion?.

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  1. Intro Fusion by: Tremaine Scott, Declan Goff, and Mai Ying Xiong

  2. Hello I’m Fusion I’m the compound of two atoms and turning into one atom. However my power has not been mastered to use in everday life.

  3. What is Fusion? Fusion is the process that powers the sun and the stars. In one type of this reaction, two atoms of hydrogen combine together, or fuse, to form an atom of helium. In the process some of the mass of the hydrogen is converted into energy. The easiest fusion reaction to make happen combines deuterium (or “heavy hydrogen”) with tritium (or “heavy-heavy hydrogen”) to make helium and a neutron. Deuterium is plentifully available in ordinary water. Tritium can be produced by combining the fusion neutron with the abundant light metal lithium. Thus fusion has the potential to be an inexhaustible source of energy.

  4. How can Fusion be used to produce useful energy

  5. Fuel Source Fuel Source The fuel source consists of Helium and deuterium and the reaction produces with a helium-4 nucleus atom.

  6. Fusion Aplications My main application is making electricity. I can provide a safe, clean energy source for future generations. Fusion reactors will not produce high-level nuclear wastes like their fission counterparts, so disposal will be less of a problem.

  7. Reactor

  8. Fusion Advantages • Unlike the burning of coal or other fossil fuels, fusion does not emit harmful toxins into the atmosphere. The combustion of most fossil fuels involves some form of the reaction

  9. How is the current Fusion research? • As of July 2010, the largest experiment was the Joint European Torus (JET). In 1997, JET produced a peak of 16.1 megawatts (21,600 hp) of fusion power (65% of input power), with fusion power of over 10 MW (13,000 hp) sustained for over 0.5 sec. In June 2005, the construction of the experimental reactor ITER, designed to produce several times more fusion power than the power put into the plasma over many minutes, was announced. Project partners were preparing the site in 2008.

  10. We’re getting close! • While fusion sounds simple, the details are difficult and exacting. Heating, compressing and confining hydrogen plasmas at 100 million degrees is a significant challenge. A lot of science and engineering had to be learned to get fusion to where we are today. Both magnetic and inertial fusion programs expect to build their next experiments which will produce more energy than they consume within the next 15 years.

  11. Fusion Disadvantages • Scientists have not yet been able to contain a fusion reaction long enough for there to be a net energy gain.

  12. The End

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