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minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months ago The majority of the energy comes from nuclear fission Yes, from an extremely inefficient fission reaction that can be improved by an order of magnitude by doing it slowly in a reactor.
minus-squareantonlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoMixed up fission and fusion there, they sound so similar in English. The comment talks about fusion.
minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoMost of the energy does not come from fusion.
minus-squareantonlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoIt does in modern designs, the first time it happened was in 1952. To quote Wikipedia: The first thermonuclear weapon detonation, where the vast majority of the yield comes from fusion, was the 1952 Ivy Mike test of a liquid deuterium-fusing device. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion
Yes, from an extremely inefficient fission reaction that can be improved by an order of magnitude by doing it slowly in a reactor.
Mixed up fission and fusion there, they sound so similar in English.
The comment talks about fusion.
Most of the energy does not come from fusion.
It does in modern designs, the first time it happened was in 1952.
To quote Wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion