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To really grasp the basic mechanisms of a nuclear reaction online, you have to go to Australia. Down near the bottom of the page "What is Uranium?" gives the best overview of what uranium is and how it works inside a reactor, with a nice graphic of a reactor system and clear explanation.
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Nuclear fusion could become a more viable energy solution with the discovery of way to prevent super-hot gases from causing damage within reactors. ... Evans says uncontrolled ELMs could be expected to damage a part of the ITER reactor called the diverter, which collects and removes helium (a by-product of the fusion reaction).
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www.newscientist.com/article/dn9202-nuclear-fusion-plas...
www.newscientist.com/article/dn9202-nuclear-fusion-plasma-problem-tackled.html
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Introduction to How Nuclear Fusion Reactors Work ... Physics of Nuclear Fusion: Reactions ... Conditions for Nuclear Fusion...
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science.howstuffworks.com/fusion-reactor.htm
science.howstuffworks.com/fusion-reactor.htm
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How the Moon arose has long stumped scientists. Now Dutch geophysicists argue that it was created not by a collision, but a runaway nuclear reaction deep inside the Earth.
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www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/print/2421/birth-moon
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Nuclear reaction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry, a nuclear reaction is the process in which two nuclei or nuclear particles collide to produce products different from the initial particles. In principle a ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reaction
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Nuclear chain reaction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A nuclear chain reaction occurs when one nuclear reaction causes an average of one or more nuclear reactions, thus leading to a self-propagating number of these reactions. The specific nuclear react...
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The reactions considered so far occur spontaneously, and involve a conversion of mass into (mainly) kinetic energy of the decay products. There is another class of nuclear reactions which can be induced, ... Such a chain reaction has important consequences in the design of nuclear reactors, as well as nuclear weapons.
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theory.uwinnipeg.ca/physics/nucl/node5.html
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Applet: Nuclear Chain Reaction ... This applet simulates what happens in a nuclear chain reaction. Each green dot you see here represents a nucleus that spontaneously fissions, if a neutron hits it. An example for such a nucleus would be 236U. Once a nucleus fissions, its fission products will be represented by two red dots.
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lectureonline.cl.msu.edu/~mmp/applist/chain/chain.htm
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The key to initiating a fusion reaction is for the nuclei that are to fuse to collide at very high velocities, thus driving them close enough together for the strong (but very short-ranged) nuclear forces to overcome the electrical repulsion between them.
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csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/energy/reactions.html
csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/energy/reactions.html
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