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Did you know that the core temperature of the sun is about 15 million degrees Celsius and its massive mass creates a gravitational pull which is approximately 28 times that on Earth? These two conditions enable the sun’s hydrogen atoms to fuse into helium emitting heat in the process. But how are similar conditions created on Earth? In a tokamak, to

Everybody is familiar with a coal, oil or gas power station. When these are mentioned inevitably we think of polluting chimneys and the release of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. We maybe also think of renewable energy sources and whether these would one day be enough to meet the worldwide electricity demand. Nuclear fission might