Nuclear Fusion

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Term Paper Title	Nuclear Fusion
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Nuclear Fusion

Nuclear Fusion

For a fusion reaction to take place, the nuclei, which are positively charged,
must have enough kinetic energy to overcome their electrostatic force of
repulsion.  This can occur either when one nucleus is accelerated to high
energies by an accelerating device, or when the energies of both nuclei are
raised by the application of very high temperature.  The latter method, referred
to the application of thermonuclear fusion, is the source of a lot of really
cool energy. Enough energy is produced in thermonuclear fusion to suck the paint
of 1 city block of houses and give all of the residents permanent orange Afros.
The sun is a example of thermonuclear fusion in nature. If I was a atom, I could
only wish to be in a thermonuclear reaction. Thermonuclear reactions occur when
a proton is accelerated and collides with another proton and then the two
protons fuse, forming a deuterium nucleus which has a proton, neutrino and lots
of energy.  I have no idea what a deuterium nucleus is, but is must be 10 times
cooler than just a regular  nucleus.  Such a reaction is not self sustaining
because the released energy is not readily imparted to other nuclei.
thermonuclear fusion of deuterium and tritium will produce a helium nucleus and
an energetic neutron that can help sustain further fusion.  This is the basic
principal of the hydrogen bomb which employs a brief, controlled thermonuclear
fusion reaction.  This was also how the car in the Back to the Future movie
worked.  It had a much more sophisticated system of producing a fusion reaction
from things like, old coffee grounds, bananas, and old beer cans.  Thermonuclear
reactions depend on high energies, and the possibility of a low-temperature
nuclear fusion has generally been discounted.  Little does the scientific
community know about my experiments.  I have produced cold fusion in my basement
with things like: stale bread, milk, peanut butter and flat Pepsi.  I have been
able to produce  a ten-megaton reaction which as little as a saltine cracker and
some grass clippings.  But enough about my discoveries.  Early in 1989 two
electrochemists startled the scientific world by claiming to achieve a room-
temperature fusion in a simple laboratory.  They had little proof to back up
their discovery, and were not credited with their so-called accomplishment.  The
two scientists were Stanley Pons of the university of Utah and Martin
Fleischmann of the University of Southampton in England.  T...

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