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{{Short description|1970s American fusion power project}} [[File:Pacer-fusion-concept.jpg|thumb|Pacer fusion energy concept showing salt cavern where thermonuclear explosives are dropp ...

Some accelerator-based [[neutron generator]]s induce fusion between beams of [[deuterium]] and/or [[tritium]] ions and metal [[hydride] ...nized deuterium and/or tritium gas to temperatures sufficient for creating fusion. ...

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{{short description|Rocket driven by nuclear fusion power}} ...Fusion Driven Rocket including major subsystems.png|thumb|A schematic of a fusion-driven rocket by [[NASA]]]] ...

...ding%20the%20Atom/SNAP%20Nuclear%20Space%20Reactors.pdf SNAP Nuclear Space Reactors]''</ref><ref>Space.com (May 17, 2013), ''[http://www.space.com/21199-space- ...[[Specific impulse|high efficiency]] during remaining mission phases. The proposed application of this engine design was for a fast [[Human mission to Mars|hu ...

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...f the walls, the reactor can run at much higher temperatures. Conventional reactors have stricter limitations because the [[Nuclear reactor core|core]] would m ...ate with efficiencies roughly double that of the traditional liquid-cooled reactors which use the [[Rankine cycle]] and reach about 35% efficiency. The complex ...

{{Short description|Planned fusion facility}} [[File:EUROfusion schematic diagram of fusion power plant.jpg|thumb|Artist's concept of DEMO connected to the power grid] ...

...ate=March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Neutron amplification in CANDU reactors |url=http://canteach.candu.org/library/20041209.pdf |publisher=CANDU |url-s ...es only [[engineering]] effort, not fundamental research (unlike [[nuclear fusion]] proposals). ...

...r 6, 2007) was an American [[physicist]] who worked primarily in [[nuclear fusion]] energy research. He was the recipient of the Schreiber-Spence Achievement ..., using the exhaust from the reactor as a rocket engine.<ref>R.W.Bussard, "Fusion as Electric Propulsion", "Journal of Propulsion and Power" v6 no September ...

|[[Nuclear reactor|Nuclear fission reactors]], [[Nuclear transmutation|transmutation]], [[Breeding blanket|breeding bla |Nuclear fission reactions, nuclear fusion reactions ...

...erials, also called poisons, are intentionally inserted into some types of reactors in order to lower the high reactivity of their initial fresh fuel load. Som ...u/hbase/nucene/xenon.html|title="Xenon Poisoning" or Neutron Absorption in Reactors|website=hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu|access-date=12 April 2018|archive-dat ...

...ear fusion]] machine, a concept known as a [[Nuclear fusion–fission hybrid|fusion–fission hybrid]]. The other uses neutrons created through [[spallation]] of ...nherently safe]], unlike a conventional reactor. In most types of critical reactors, there exist circumstances in which the rate of fission can increase rapidl ...

...actor.gif|right|thumb|420px|Pressurised water reactors are the most common reactors used in ships and submarines. The pictorial diagram shows the operating pri ...aircraft carriers and submarines currently use [[uranium]] fueled nuclear reactors that can provide propulsion for long periods without refueling. There are ...

...Jarboe, T. R., et al. "Recent results from the HIT-SI experiment." Nuclear Fusion 51.6 (2011): 063029</ref> ...rgy devices had limited performance and most spheromak research ended when fusion funding was dramatically curtailed in the late 1980s. However, in the late ...

...proportion of material ejected. The star lifting techniques that have been proposed would operate by increasing this natural [[Plasma (physics)|plasma]] flow a ...sity of Regina, New York, Springer 2008}} {{ISBN|978-0-387-68128-3}}</ref> proposed a modification to the polar jet system in which the magnetic field could be ...

...clear weapon, due to the production of high-energy neutrons from [[nuclear fusion]], contributes greatly to the [[nuclear weapon yield|yield]] and to [[nucle According to the fissility rule proposed by Yigal Ronen, for a heavy element with ''Z'' between 90 and 100, an isoto ...

...rated while being able to use actinides unsuitable for use in conventional reactors as "fuel". [[Inertial confinement fusion]] has the potential to produce orders of magnitude more neutrons than spall ...

[[File:Antimatter Rocket.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A proposed antimatter rocket]] ...ve a far higher [[energy density]] and [[specific impulse]] than any other proposed class of rocket.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Schmidt|first=George|title=62nd Inter ...

...2013}}</ref> Lithium-4 can be formed as an intermediate in some [[nuclear fusion]] reactions. [[File:Cross_Section_for_Fusion_reactions.png|thumb|Fusion cross sections of major reactions. Without the resonance in lithium-5, the ...