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For the test run, Mr Lerner used deuterium, a heavy isotope of hydrogen, as the gas.
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In an atmosphere of deuterium gas, the field generated positively charged deuteron ions and accelerated them to high energy in a beam.
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Since the late 1950s, U.K. scientists have been attempting to achieve the fusion of hydrogen nuclei (tritum and deuterium) using magnetic confinement (MCF).
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One of the challenges of aneutronic fusion is the fact that it uses a Hydrogen-Boron reaction for fuel, rather than the more traditional deuterium-tritium fusion reaction.
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Dr Seaborg created plutonium for the first time in 1940, using the cyclotron to shoot deuterium ions into uranium atoms so fast that their nuclei merged.
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Never mind that they showed the difference between heavy water (with deuterium atoms) and ordinary water (with hydrogen atoms) in a way that no image had done before.
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It consists of 1, 000 tonnes of heavy water (the sort that has deuterium, a heavy form of hydrogen, in its molecules, instead of the normal, light form of the element).
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In the Nature study, Brian Naranjo and colleagues, from the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), initiated fusion of heavy hydrogen, or deuterium, using the strong electric field generated in a pyroelectric crystal.
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When this beam struck a target of erbium deuteride, the team detected neutrons coming from the target with precisely the energy expected if they were generated by the nuclear fusion of two deuterium nuclei.
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An alternative is Inertial confinement fusion (ICF), in which fusion of nuclei is initiated by heating and compressing a fuel target, typically in the form of a pellet containing deuterium and tritium contained in a device called a hohlraum (hollow space or cavity) using an extremely powerful laser.
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