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Atkinson Houtersman
Two scientist named Atkinson and Houtermans discovered that you can create energy by fusing two nuclei together -
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Nucler Fusion
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Mark Oliphant
The first demonstrator of nuclear fusion -
Hans Bethe
Bethe explained how fusion works in stars. Won the Nobel peace prize in 1967 -
Enrico Fermi
He used fusion to detonate a fission bomb -
Fusion Reactor
Andrei Sakharov and Igor Tamm Proposed the idea of a fusion reactor -
Design for Hydrogen bomb
Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam develop the Teller-Ulam design for the hydrogen bomb -
ZETA Device
Construction of the ZETA device started at Harwell. This is the largest device for some time. -
Fusion Claimed
The US and UK release data from ZETA claiming fusion -
Russia Tsar Bomb
They tested te most powerful hydrogen bomb named the "Tsar" bomb -
JET is Made
JET, a building made to help further understand and study nuclear fusion -
KMS Laser Fusion
KMS Fusion carried out the world's first successful laser-induced fusion -
First Plasmas
JET achieved the first plasmas on time and on budget -
"First cold fusion"
Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, announced that they had achieved cold fusion: -
Fusion Power
Princeton produced as much as 10 megawatts of power from a controlled fusion reaction. -
World Record
The JET in the UK produces 16 MW of fusion power. The current world record.
