Ongoing chronological account of events using or studying nuclear fusion
See also: Fusion power § History of research
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This timeline of nuclear fusion is an incomplete chronological summary of significant events in the study and use of nuclear fusion.
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Fusion ignition is the point at which a nuclearfusion reaction becomes self-sustaining. This occurs when the energy being given off by the reaction heats...
of the science surrounding nuclear fission and nuclearfusion. In addition to the scientific advancements, this timeline also includes several political...
The history ofnuclearfusion began early in the 20th century as an inquiry into how stars powered themselves and expanded to incorporate a broad inquiry...
Mississippi, and New Mexico. Includes all tests with potential for nuclear fission or fusion explosion, including combat use, singleton tests, salvo tests...
A nuclear weapon, also known as an atomic bomb, possesses enormous destructive power from nuclear fission, or a combination of fission and fusion reactions...
combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion. Both bomb types release large quantities of energy from relatively...
creation of chemical elements by nuclearfusion reactions within stars. Stellar nucleosynthesis has occurred since the original creation of hydrogen,...
discovery and mechanism ofnuclearfusion processes in stars, in his paper The Internal Constitution of the Stars. At that time, the source of stellar energy was...
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class ofnuclearfusion experimental reactors that are intended to demonstrate the net production of electric power from nuclearfusion. Most of the ITER...
This is the timelineof the nuclear program of Iran. 1957: The United States and Iran sign a civil nuclear co-operation agreement as part of the U.S. Atoms...
A nuclear power plant (NPP) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. As is typical of thermal power stations, heat is...
fusion reactions. Presently, the vast majority of electricity from nuclear power is produced by nuclear fission of uranium and plutonium in nuclear power...
deuterium or other atoms. This allowed them to measure the nuclear cross section of various fusion reactions, and determined that the deuterium–deuterium...
nuclearfusion research and engineering megaproject aimed at creating energy through a fusion process similar to that of the Sun. Upon completion of construction...
further progress could be made with the kind of design that ZETA represented (see Timelineofnuclearfusion). In 1954 AERE was incorporated into the newly...
fission reactors that produce more fissile nuclear fuel than they consume (breeder reactors, and if developed, fusion power) among conventional renewable energy...
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copiously in nuclear fission and fusion. They are a primary contributor to the nucleosynthesis of chemical elements within stars through fission, fusion, and...
ofnuclear power as realized through the first artificial fission of atoms that would lead to the Manhattan Project and, eventually, to using nuclear...
The timelineof quantum mechanics is a list of key events in the history of quantum mechanics, quantum field theories and quantum chemistry. 1801 – Thomas...
power plants. The CFETR utilises and intends to build upon pre-existing nuclearfusion research from the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor program...
detonation ofnuclear weapons. Five are considered to be nuclear-weapon states (NWS) under the terms of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation ofNuclear Weapons...