nuclear fusion

noun

physics
: a process in which the nuclei of atoms are joined

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The buzz around nuclear fusion has kicked into overdrive in recent years. Sam Meredith, CNBC, 11 June 2025 Our ongoing struggle with the high cost and challenges of nuclear fusion as an energy source is resolved by AGI. Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025 Promising and distinguished researchers of Chinese origin in fields essential to U.S. competitiveness—artificial intelligence, robotics, mathematics, and nuclear fusion—are leaving leading U.S. research universities to return to China. L. Rafael Reif, Foreign Affairs, 6 May 2025 On the other hand, nuclear fusion combines two light atomic nuclei—the cores of atoms, consisting of protons and neutrons—into one heavier atomic nucleus. Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nuclear fusion

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