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Nuclear Fusion Energy
Date published: 2023-04-12
Date modified: 2023-04-12
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“When we look up at night and view the stars,
everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.”
Carl Sagan
Anyone who saw the mushroom cloud created by the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, if they don't know what it is, knows the effects of nuclear fission. But even if you have heard of it, few have any idea what nuclear fusion is, the abundant, cheap, and clean energy that would save the planet.
First, we need to understand this holy grail of high-energy physics.
The Earth is covered by oceans of hydrogen isotopes H1 -protium- and H2 -deuterium- which would guarantee inexhaustible sources of this dreamed energy, which are the result of atomic fusion of low A nuclei, or those whose area is excessively superior to their volume, guaranteeing their stability. However, it is extremely difficult to build a fusion reactor because of the Coulomb barrier.
Proposed by the French engineer and physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb in 1783 -the same year in which he proposed the law of electrostatics that bears his name- the Coulomb barrier, or the repulsive obstacle that exists between two atomic nuclei and that, if not overcome, must at least be less penetrated, so as to allow two atomic nuclei to come close enough for the action of short-range nuclear forces to allow fusion.
There is now a race to see who can get to the fusion reactor first. In December 2022, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California announced that it had succeeded in producing more energy in a fusion experiment than was used to obtain it.
If so, mankind is beginning to make stars, because this process is the generator of the energy that makes them shine.
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