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Timeline of Fusion

  • Atkinson Houtersman

    Atkinson Houtersman

    Two scientist named Atkinson and Houtermans discovered that you can create energy by fusing two nuclei together
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    Nucler Fusion

  • Mark Oliphant

    Mark Oliphant

    The first demonstrator of nuclear fusion
  • Hans Bethe

    Hans Bethe

    Bethe explained how fusion works in stars. Won the Nobel peace prize in 1967
  • Enrico Fermi

    Enrico Fermi

    He used fusion to detonate a fission bomb
  • Fusion Reactor

    Fusion Reactor

    Andrei Sakharov and Igor Tamm Proposed the idea of a fusion reactor
  • Design for Hydrogen bomb

    Design for Hydrogen bomb

    Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam develop the Teller-Ulam design for the hydrogen bomb
  • ZETA Device

    ZETA Device

    Construction of the ZETA device started at Harwell. This is the largest device for some time.
  • Fusion Claimed

    The US and UK release data from ZETA claiming fusion
  • Russia Tsar Bomb

    Russia Tsar Bomb

    They tested te most powerful hydrogen bomb named the "Tsar" bomb
  • JET is Made

    JET is Made

    JET, a building made to help further understand and study nuclear fusion
  • KMS Laser Fusion

    KMS Laser Fusion

    KMS Fusion carried out the world's first successful laser-induced fusion
  • First Plasmas

    First Plasmas

    JET achieved the first plasmas on time and on budget
  • "First cold fusion"

    "First cold fusion"

    Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, announced that they had achieved cold fusion:
  • Fusion Power

    Fusion Power

    Princeton produced as much as 10 megawatts of power from a controlled fusion reaction.
  • World Record

    World Record

    The JET in the UK produces 16 MW of fusion power. The current world record.