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minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoMost of the energy does not come from fusion.
minus-squareantonlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day 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
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