fusion reactor

American  

noun

1. Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion.

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fusion reactor British  

noun

1. a nuclear reactor in which a thermonuclear fusion reaction takes place

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Example Sentences

In their study, Zupan and his colleagues examined a fusion reactor design that uses deuterium and tritium fuel inside a lithium lined vessel.

From Science Daily

“The Sun is an enormous, free fusion reactor in the sky. It is super dumb to make tiny fusion reactors on Earth.”

From The Wall Street Journal

TAE says that after more than 25 years of research and development, it has significantly reduced fusion reactor size, cost and complexity.

From The Wall Street Journal

Now, the team is building a new kind of fusion reactor, which will be able to produce any kind of radioisotope for research or medicine, right by the hospitals that need it.

From BBC

The tests were performed under both static and stirred-flow conditions at 873 K to simulate realistic scenarios in fusion reactor coolant systems.

From Science Daily