nuclear fusion

noun

physics
: a process in which the nuclei of atoms are joined

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Tony Avelar | Bloomberg | Getty Images How the U.S. is losing ground to China in nuclear fusion, as AI power needs surge China and the U.S. are in a race to create the first grid-scale nuclear fusion energy. Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2025 These bodies with masses between 13 and 75 times the mass of Jupiter (or 1.3% to 7.5% the mass of the sun) are, therefore, much fainter than regular main sequence stars, despite the fact that some nuclear fusion does happen within them. Robert Lea, Space.com, 14 Mar. 2025 That isn't the case with white dwarfs, which form when stars like the sun run out of fuel for nuclear fusion, shedding their outer layers as their cores collapse and forming a cooling stellar ember. Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Mar. 2025 The risks associated with scaling a direct air capture or nuclear fusion company are high, and the rewards are not commensurate. Alan Neuhauser, Axios, 17 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nuclear fusion

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