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marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

The 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.

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anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Mixed up fission and fusion there, they sound so similar in English.
The comment talks about fusion.

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- marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Most of the energy does not come from fusion.
  
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  - anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    It does in modern designs, the first time it happened was in 1952.
    
    To quote Wikipedia:
    
    The first thermonuclear weapon detonation, where the vast majority of the yield comes from fusion, was the 1952 Ivy Mike test of a liquid deuterium-fusing device.
    
    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion
    
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