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marcos@lemmy.world 2 months agoThe majority of the energy comes from nuclear fission
Yes, from an extremely inefficient fission reaction that can be improved by an order of magnitude by doing it slowly in a reactor.
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Mixed up fission and fusion there, they sound so similar in English.
The comment talks about fusion.
marcos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Most of the energy does not come from fusion.
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
It does in modern designs, the first time it happened was in 1952.
To quote Wikipedia:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion