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Also Known As thermonuclear fusion • fusion • atomic fusion

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laser-activated fusion
Fission
reaction rate as a function of plasma temperature
Tokamak magnetic confinement
Nuclear fission and fusion
What is the difference between nuclear fission and fusion?
Fission of a uranium nucleus by a neutron
helium
Explore the physics behind nuclear fusion and the Sun
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Yevgeny Konstantinovich Zavoysky
Soviet physicist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov
Soviet physicist
Lyman Spitzer, Jr.
Lyman Spitzer
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Gersh Itskovich Budker
Soviet physicist
William Draper Harkins
American chemist