>>13395327Here's the answer nobody in this thread has given, probably because they're midwits responding to a bait question with no understanding of nuclear fusion. I'll bite.
Nuclear fusion actually requires large levels of energy input to be sustainable, by our current innovation this energy is used for running electromagnets. Electromagnets are used to keep plasma contained in sufficient densities to facilitate fusion, which requires immense amounts of power that the fusion reactor isn't even capable of outputting for longer than a few seconds (101 in the case of China's Tokamak). The production of energy using fusion requires that the energy output becomes greater than the input, creating a sustainable system, but as it stands fusion reactors are incapable of this. Fission reactors are much simpler to run, since it takes far less energy to facilitate fission.
Fusion reactors excel in the creation of unstable particles, namely He-5, which almost immediately becomes fissile. The breakdown of these unstable atoms is where the energy in fusion comes from.
I will now go over the wrong answers in the thread.
>>13395371Helium's atomic mass is 4.002602, though I believe you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what "atomic mass" actually is.
>>13395452>>13395454Fusion uses deuterium and tritium as fuel, not uranium. I'm very confused as to why a picture of a fusion reactor would irritate you.
>>13395494>less mass Objectively false. While there is less mass after helium is produced from deuterium and tritium, this is due to the expulsion of a neutron from the unstable particle, much like fission.
