The power of the SUN in the palm of Human
Most of you have heard this dialogue from the famous movie Spiderman 2. Well, guess what we have completed it. The Kstar project(Korean star) has sustained the fusion reaction for 20 seconds.You guys might feel its really small duration but the effort to achieve this took decades of hardwork. KSTAR Reactor pic credits: indiantimes Lot of countries have been into making of an artificial sun due to the increase in demand of the energy and the pollution of earth. Nuclear fusion paves the way to solve these problems. For over a decade scientists have been working for making it a realization. Two years ago the same was achieved by china for 8 seconds. So, actually what happens in the artificial sun? In our sun, the source of energy is fusion reaction combining lighter atoms to make a heavier atoms. In Sun hydrogen combine to form helium. For this reaction to take place, The isotopes of hydrogen(deuterium and tritium) is heated to extreme temperatures to change...