现代的核电厂使用的发电技术,称为「核分裂」,是利用中子撞击一颗重原子(通常为铀或钸)后,重原子会「分裂」成两颗轻的原子,并在过程中放出能量。
而加速器可能产生核聚变,将原子核融合在一起。
But accelerators could potentially produce nuclear fusion, which fuses atomic nuclei together.
核聚变是发生在恒星内部的原子核融合,是地球上长期追求的目标。
Nuclear fusion - the melding of atomic nuclei that happens inside stars - is a long-sought goal on Earth.
两个氢原子核融合产生的一克产品能够产生相当于11吨煤炭产生的能量。
One gram of the products from the fusion of two light atomic nuclei could generate as much energy as 11 tons of coal.
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