* 1957-Initial results in ZETA appear to suggest the machine has successfully reached basic fusion temperatures.

* 1958-the US and UK release large amounts of data in February, with the ZETA team claiming fusion.

One of the most significant experiments to occur at AERE was the ZETA fusion power experiment.

ZETA was by far the largest fusion device of its era, and equipped with all of the latest equipment.

At the time, almost all fusion research was classified, so progress on ZETA was generally unknown outside the labs working on it.

In other failed attempts, such as the British claim that fusion had been achieved with the ZETA device, the published results could be used for further progress.

ZETA was at that time by far the largest and most powerful fusion device in the world.

In 1950 he also proposed an idea for a controlled nuclear fusion reactor, the tokamak, which is still the basis for the majority of work in the area.

Despite research having started in the 1950s, no commercial fusion reactor is expected before 2050.

* Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual indicates that the impulse engines are nuclear fusion engines where the plasma from the fusion reactor powers a massive magnetic coil to propel the ship.

* Fusion reactor, a device for containing and controlling a fusion power reaction

In an operating fusion reactor, part of the energy generated will serve to maintain the plasma temperature as fresh deuterium and tritium are introduced.

Since plasma compression brings the ions closer together, the process has the additional benefit of facilitating attainment of the required density for a fusion reactor.

The fusion reactions in the plasma spiraling around a tokamak reactor produce large amounts of high energy neutrons.

This is a large advantage of tokamak reactors since these freed neutrons provide a simple way to extract heat from the plasma stream ; this is how the fusion reactor generates usable energy.

** The British JET fusion reactor generates 1. 5 MW output power.

A smaller and lighter fusion reactor might be possible in the future when more sophisticated methods have been devised to control magnetic confinement and prevent plasma instabilities.

For space flight, the main advantage of fusion would be the very high specific impulse, the main disadvantage the ( probable ) large mass of the reactor.

To produce positive thrust, the fusion reactor must be capable of producing fusion while still giving the incident ions a net rearward acceleration ( relative to the ship ).

A fusion reactor used to power a ramjet starship might be a steady state magnetic fusion reactor based on the following nuclear fusion reactions.

In a fusion reactor 4 protons are converted into a single alpha particle, 2 positrons and 2 neutrinos.

) MHD stability at high beta is crucial for a compact, cost-effective magnetic fusion reactor.

* The first plasma operation of the nuclear fusion reactor ITER is expected.

The Sun is a natural fusion reactor.

While all prokaryotes reproduce asexually ( without the formation and fusion of gametes ), mechanisms for lateral gene transfer such as conjugation, transformation and transduction are sometimes likened to sexual reproduction.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

In the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century, one of the new " young lions " was Christian McBride ( born 1972 ), who has performed with a range of veterans ranging from McCoy Tyner to fusion gurus Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea, and who has released albums such as 2003's Vertical Vision.

* Melting ( or fusion ), the physics process of a substance undergoing a phase transition from a solid into a liquid

The main three are Type I, removal of the clitoral hood, almost invariably accompanied by removal of the clitoris itself ( clitoridectomy ); Type II, removal of the clitoris and inner labia ; and Type III ( infibulation ), removal of all or part of the inner and outer labia, and usually the clitoris, and the fusion of the wound, leaving a small hole for the passage of urine and menstrual blood — the fused wound is opened for intercourse and childbirth.

While the monist forces have led to a fusion between some of the goddesses ( 108 names are common for many goddesses ), centrifugal forces have also resulted in new goddesses and rituals gaining ascendance among the laity in different parts of Hindu world.

Agriculture is first attested with the Pre-Pottery A and Pre-Pottery B cultures, which developed out of the earlier Epipaleolithic Natufian culture of the region. In the following period the Yarmukian ( c. 8500 – 4300 BCE ), Jericho IX ( Lodian ) and others developed out of the Munhata, culture, which seem to have developed from a fusion of the Harifian and Pre-Pottery B ..

The wasps, bees, and ants together make up the suborder Apocrita, characterized by a constriction between the first and second abdominal segments called a wasp-waist ( petiole ), also involving the fusion of the first abdominal segment to the thorax.

Hay and Ham hired new bandmates to tour behind the record, including jazz / fusion bassist Jeremy Alsop, progressive rock drummer Mark Kennedy ( ex Ayers Rock ), and guitarist James Black, who respectively play on seven, eight and one of the ten tracks on Two Hearts.

Neodymium glass solid-state lasers are used in extremely high power ( terawatt scale ), high energy ( megajoules ) multiple beam systems for inertial confinement fusion.

Some fraction of elements beyond helium were created in the Big Bang, as the protons and neutrons collided with each other ( lithium, beryllium, and perhaps some boron ), but all of the " heavier elements " ( heavier than carbon, element number 6 ) that we see today, were created inside of stars during a series of fusion stages, such as the proton-proton chain, the CNO cycle and the triple-alpha process.

Research into fusion for military purposes began in the early 1940s as part of the Manhattan Project, but this was not accomplished until 1951 ( see the Greenhouse Item nuclear test ), and nuclear fusion on a large scale in an explosion was first carried out on November 1, 1952, in the Ivy Mike hydrogen bomb test.

A similar process occurs in fissionable isotopes ( such as uranium-238 ), but in order to fission, these isotopes require additional energy provided by fast neutrons ( such as produced by nuclear fusion in thermonuclear weapons ).

So-called neutron bombs ( enhanced radiation weapons ) have been constructed which release a larger fraction of their energy as ionizing radiation ( specifically, neutrons ), but these are all thermonuclear devices which rely on the nuclear fusion stage to produce the extra radiation.

* Prism ( Japanese band ), a jazz fusion band

Even so, it was unclear how proton – proton fusion might proceed, because the most obvious product, helium-2 ( diproton ), is unstable and immediately dissociates back into a pair of protons.

In hot fusion reactions, very light, high-energy projectiles are accelerated toward very heavy targets ( actinides ), giving rise to compound nuclei at high excitation energy (~ 40 – 50 MeV ) that may either fission or evaporate several ( 3 to 5 ) neutrons.

In cold fusion reactions, the produced fused nuclei have a relatively low excitation energy (~ 10 – 20 MeV ), which decreases the probability that these products will undergo fission reactions.

* RMS ( band ), a jazz / rock fusion band

He concurrently began pursuing a solo career, debuting with the experimental electronic fusion album The Thousand Knives of Ryūichi Sakamoto ( 1978 ), and later released the pioneering album B-2 Unit ( 1980 ), which included the electro classic " Riot in Lagos ".

* Spontaneous Combustion ( band ), US bluegrass / rock fusion band of the 1990s

The development of the British constitution, which is not a codified document, is based on this fusion in the person of the Monarch, who has a formal role to play in the legislature ( Parliament, which is where legal and political sovereignty lies, is the Crown-in-Parliament, and is summoned and dissolved by the Sovereign who must give his or her Royal Assent to all Bills so that they become Acts ), the executive ( the Sovereign appoints all ministers of His / Her Majesty's Government, who govern in the name of the Crown ) and the judiciary ( the Sovereign, as the fount of justice, appoints all senior judges, and all public prosecutions are brought in his or her name ).