This reactor does not use fission, the process of splitting atoms into smaller elements employed by every commercial power reactor currently operating on earth.

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But in Dr Rostoker's reactor, the helium nuclei created by the process of light fission would be speedy enough to escape from the ends of the ellipsoid, where the magnetic field is weakest.

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