This is the story of nuclear fusion—how ... will exhaust the hydrogen responsible for those initial reactions in the proton-proton chain, and the star will start burning helium, thus ...

The dream of nuclear fusion has ... “The sun and the stars are all fusion reactors,” says Dinan. “They are element cookers — cooking hydrogen into helium — and then as they die, they ...

Recent fusion breakthroughs have generated interest from investors like Sam Altman and Bill Gates—along with some unrealistic expectations.

The dream of humanity to imitate the forces that created their habitat has been alive for at least as far back as the time ...

Fusion reactions occur naturally in stars ... The helium-3 nucleus formed has less mass than the combined mass of hydrogen-1 and hydrogen- 2. This missing mass is released as energy. Nuclear ...

Stars are born from the great reservoirs of cosmic material (mostly hydrogen and helium, the most common ... protons can collide so forcefully that nuclear fusion can occur. Physicists call ...

Today, we know that the sun, along with all other stars, is powered by a reaction called nuclear ... hydrogen isotopes — will be used to fuel future fusion power plants. Inside the reactor, deuterium ...

A world record for nuclear fusion has been ... It involves light elements, such as hydrogen, smashing together to form heavier elements, such as helium. For fusion to occur, hydrogen atoms ...

nuclear fusion means making atoms do something that goes against their very nature, outside of a star’s interior. Fusing helium isotopes can be done on Earth fairly readily these days ...