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Both the Russians (on July 1 Soviet Scientist M. G. Meshchiryakov reported controlled fusion experiments) and the British, as well as the U.S.. are reported to be working hard on this radical device, but the only fusion reaction demonstrated so far is an uncontrolled one: the hydrogen bomb. In the bomb, light elements (isotopes of hydrogen and probably lithium) are caused to join into helium by the intense heat of an exploding fission (uranium) bomb. Something more tractable is needed to start a fusion reaction in a peaceful power plant...
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