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An Indian-born scientist and his team may have won a place
in the sun by achieving nuclear fusion in a table-top experiment, leading to
expectations that the world is on the cusp of a bounteous energy source.
The scientific world is describing Dr Rusi Taleyarkhan’s breakthrough, now
revalidated after some initial skepticism, as "making the sun in a jar."
What he has essentially done is to slam together hydrogen atoms so fast and
so forcefully that it produces temperatures of millions of degrees, and emits
a flash of light and energy, in the same way as it happens with the sun and
stars.
The process is known as nuclear fusion, and because it uses readily available
elements like hydrogen – as opposed to nuclear fission which uses rare,
complex, expensive, and dangerous matter such as uranium and plutonium –
scientists have looked at it as a holy grail for cheap, limitless energy..........
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Table-top fusion: NRI makes Sun in jar
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/535256.cms
Times of India, March 03, 2004
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