How to Use nuclear fusion in a Sentence

nuclear fusion

noun
  • At that time, our Sun’s core will run out of the hydrogen needed for nuclear fusion.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 2 June 2023
  • The nuclear fusion reaction no longer takes place, which makes white dwarfs very dim.
    Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 21 May 2024
  • The total time those puzzles stayed in the right place was 2.2 seconds—by nuclear fusion standards, that’s a pretty good result.
    Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 3 May 2024
  • This could go mainstream much faster than, say, power from nuclear fusion and be far less expensive.
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The result is nuclear fusion, where the two separate atoms are replaced with a single, larger atom.
    Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
  • In that respect, beamed power from space is like nuclear fusion, except at least 25 years behind.
    IEEE Spectrum, 9 May 2024
  • And since the red dwarf is still hot, there will eventually be a spark that triggers a runaway nuclear fusion reaction.
    Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 21 May 2024
  • Not so fast, experts say This announcement adds to a number of other nuclear fusion breakthroughs.
    Laura Paddison, CNN, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The first of these is about nuclear fusion — a process of merging lighter atoms with heavier ones, releasing massive amounts of carbon-emission-free energy.
    Megan Molteni, STAT, 12 May 2023
  • As the name suggests, nuclear fusion combines hydrogen atoms to generate energy – the same process that powers the Sun and other stars.
    Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Red giants form when stars have exhausted their supply of hydrogen for nuclear fusion and begin to die.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Feb. 2024
  • And if nuclear fusion ever transitions from the research and development stage to practical, real-world use, San Diego will be in the middle of it.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Here’s the story from Renata Geraldo at the Seattle Times, who writes that green hydrogen and nuclear fusion are some of the ideas being thrown around to produce clean power and maintain jobs.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
  • Here, the propellant flows around the engine’s core, inside which nuclear fusion reaction occurs and its products heat up the propellant.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 12 May 2023
  • The densest cores eventually succumb to the overwhelming force of gravity and initiate nuclear fusion, at which point a star is born!
    Nia Imara, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The densest cores eventually succumb to the overwhelming force of gravity and initiate nuclear fusion, at which point a star is born!
    Nia Imara, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
  • After decades of always being 30 years away, nuclear fusion may finally come into its own.
    Michael Koziol, IEEE Spectrum, 1 June 2018
  • As the white dwarf takes stellar material from the red giant, a flash of nuclear fusion is ignited, launching a nova outburst, according to the outlet.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 27 May 2024
  • These stellar objects, called dark stars, might have been fueled not by nuclear fusion but by the self-annihilation of dark matter—the invisible stuff that is thought to make up about 85 percent of the matter in the universe.
    Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 20 July 2023
  • Fallout takes place in an alternate future, in which nuclear fusion is easy af but making a car without fins or writing a song that’s not western swing is impossible.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024
  • His uncanny sense of the next big thing has led him to back hundreds of start-ups including a new utopian city, longevity and nuclear fusion ventures and Vita Brevis, a San Francisco speakeasy focused on art.
    Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Regular stars rely on energy released via nuclear fusion, but fusion has stopped in white dwarfs.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 July 2023
  • The world’s most abundant fuel source might be the isotopes in sea water, or little nuclear fusion stars in boxes, or minerals mined on an asteroid named Psyche somewhere between Mars and Jupiter.
    Bill Weir, TIME, 12 June 2024
  • If testing proves successful, the silicon carbide composite could be used not only in fission power plants but may be applied to nuclear fusion projects as well.
    Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2023
  • As the world looks for better ways to produce carbon-free energy, nuclear fusion reactions offer a plausible solution that can be turned off and on demand.
    Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 1 July 2024
  • Microsoft announced a deal on Wednesday in which Helion will supply it with electricity from nuclear fusion by 2028.
    Steve Mollman, Fortune, 14 May 2023
  • Zubrin requires nuclear fusion power plants that don’t yet exist, but always seem tantalizing close.
    Greg Autry, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The world’s most abundant fuel source might be hydrogen made from sun and sea water, or little nuclear fusion stars in boxes filling batteries made of salt or minerals mined on the Asteroid Psyche.
    Bill Weir, CNN, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Stars produce energy within their cores through nuclear fusion by squeezing hydrogen atoms to form helium.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Proponents of the idea believe the fund could be tapped to support emerging technologies where there are high barriers of entry — including shipbuilding, emerging geothermal and nuclear fusion projects, and quantum cryptography.
    Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2024

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