CHEM 2OD3 Chapter Notes -Nuclear Fission, Scientific American, Richmond Hill, Ontario
16 Nov 2014
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After reading your article, lockheed announces breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy, i am writing to agree and refute with some of the claims you made regarding this new and innovative nuclear energy source. Thus, sustaining reactions that produce enough energy to make them a commercially viable power source is even further away than you say. Moreover, i would like to praise your knowledge about the wastes of nuclear fusion reactions compared to other energy source. In a fusion reaction, deuterium and tritium, isotopes of hydrogen, react together and produce an isotope of helium and a neutron. This is the same isotope that is used to fill helium balloons, which is not radioactive, cannot activate the equipment and produces little to none waste. Although, you did not explicitly state the process of this reaction, the information was present and stated in a clear manner.
