Have you ever heard of nuclear fusion? Know that a nuclear fusion reactor can be created in the next 05 years
MIT scientists design a nuclear fusion reactor to produce clean electrical energy. Their idea is, by 2025, to make it efficient in energy production. That way we would have a new form of clean electricity.
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The SPARC project began two years ago, when MIT closed an agreement with the startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems for the development of a prototype of a new generation of reactors.
The responsible researchers, after an intensive work to enable the physics behind the project, brought good news. With the theoretical basis, the project and the challenges laid down on paper, the construction of the nuclear fusion reactor, it is expected, will begin in 2021. They hope, in this way, to achieve the feat of the first reactor to maintain a self-sustaining fusion. In other words, a reactor that doesn't consume a lot of energy, but produces.
fusion and fission
Nuclear fission is already mastered. However, it is not the ideal way to exploit nuclear energy. Although it produces less waste than, for example, coal, nuclear waste is more difficult to dispose of. In this process, some neutrons are released that start the reaction. With this, new neutrons come out of atoms, reaching other nuclei. This causes the atomic nuclei to "split" and release energy. That's why radioactive materials are needed.
Fusion is completely different from fission. The first point is that radioactive material is not necessary. Consequently, therefore, a much simpler disposal. In addition, there are much greater safety and efficiency of a fusion reactor than a fission one. When we master nuclear fission, it could open many doors.
Nuclear fusion is the fusion of atomic nuclei. It is the nuclear fusion that occurs in the Sun; yes, the Sun is a giant nuclear reactor. In this case, deuterium and tritium, two isotopes of hydrogen, are used. When you put enough pressure and heat to "knead them together", fusion occurs. This releases a neutron, a helium atom and energy.