• Question: Do you believe "Cold Fusion" to be possible and why?

    Asked by Positron2000 to Pierre, Lisa, Kate, Jos, Joe on 12 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by Dobby123.
    • Photo: Pierre Lasorak

      Pierre Lasorak answered on 12 Nov 2014:

      Hi
      I’m sorry I don’t know what cold fusion is.
      Looking in Wikipedia, I don’t think some processes like this are possible because you usually “activate” the nucleus by giving it some energy before it can react and do fusion. In reverse fission is essentially cold because you don’t need to activate anything if you find the nucleus in an unstable state like it is the case for Uranium.
      I’m very unsure though for cold fusion, I should look it up in more details.

    • Photo: Kate Dobson

      Kate Dobson answered on 12 Nov 2014:

      Me neither,

      I know there is an International program building the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor in France. It will produce electricity using use fusion. More details here: http://www.iter.org/sci/Whatisfusion

    • Photo: Lisa Simmons

      Lisa Simmons answered on 12 Nov 2014:

      I’m not going to hazard a guess here, I think Pierre and Kate have given excellent answers

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