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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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