nuclear fusion

"It's as complex as nuclear fusion physics, but most of us don't experience that day to day, and so we don't have to come up with a way to communicate that science to the public."

The team in Bristol have come up with a whole new approach, using nuclear fusion rather than fission.

They are created by nuclear fusion reactions in the sun, radioactive decay in nuclear reactors or the Earth's crust or in particle accelerator labs.

That is when I read about the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s great success on nuclear fusion.

Among the experiments was an effort to see if nuclear fusion, the reaction which powers the sun, could be sparked on earth in a controlled setting.