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The typical futuristic power plant of science fiction movies, books and videos games is a nuclear fusion reactor. It sounds quite impressive, but what is actually the story behind this nuclear fusion? Does it really exist? It does!
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Bahr, B., Lemmer, B., Piccolo, R. (2016). Nuclear Fusion. In: Quirky Quarks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49509-4_42
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