Physical principles
Thermonuclear fusion
Article REF: BN3013 V1
Physical principles
Thermonuclear fusion

Author : Joseph WEISSE

Publication date: July 10, 2000 | Lire en français

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1. Physical principles

1.1 General

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To produce energy, the laws of physics offer only one possibility: to carry out a transformation in which, between the initial and final states, some of the mass of the bodies involved has disappeared. This lack of mass is then converted into energy by the well-known formula :

E = mc 2

with :

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