You’ve probably been hearing about a lot of “nuclear” news recently. Maybe it’s the nuclear fusion breakthrough at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Maybe it’s nuclear power plants in Ukraine on close watch. Maybe it’s new developments in small modular nuclear reactors or thorium.

Here’s how to organize every “nuclear” thing you’ve ever heard of: First there’s “fission” versus “fusion”, and there’s “controlled” and “uncontrolled”…

If you’d like to learn more about fusion, we build a fusion device in Simone Giertz’ workshop! No, really: https://youtu.be/xsikwXnUcBs

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