'World's largest' fusion fuel facility to be built
A facility designed to store and recover a fuel used for nuclear fusionis set to be built. United Kingdom Atomic Energy ...
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World’s largest tritium fuel facility planned by UK, Italy to bolster fusion reactors
The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has taken a significant step to support future fusion power plants. The UKAEA has partnered with Eni, an Italian firm, for the construction of the ...
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Chadwick discovers the neutron
For example, a helium atom has an atomic mass of 4, but an atomic number (or positive charge) of 2. Since electrons have almost no mass, it seemed that something besides the protons in the nucleus ...
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Nuclear reactions Radioactive decay
It is not the same as a helium atom as it does not contain any electrons but it is written with the same chemical nomenclature as a helium atom: \(_{2}^{4}\textrm{He}\) When a radioactive atom ...
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Nuclear model of the atom
The atom is neutral as it has two positive protons and two negative electrons. A helium atom that has lost or gained an electron is an ion. The ion has two positive protons but one electron so it ...