Nuclear Fusion
In Our Time: Science
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The Physics of Nuclear Fusion on Earth
Philip Browning says studies on earth tell us a lot about what's going on in the sun and stars but not so much about the actual fusion processes. The one thing the sun is doing fusion by different reactions than we're studying on the earth. I say the sun's doing it actually using these very slow reactions working directly from hydrogen simple hydrogen which is all it's got where it's at present. We can learn a lot about the atmosphere of the sun and actually the space environment of the earth by studying the magnetic fields and the plasma in a taucomac.
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