Re: JET ACHIEVES FUSION POWER

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From: Paul Dietz
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1991 01:42

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In article <1991Nov11.185109.15995@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu> vu0350@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (allen h. lutins) writes:

>..O.K., i'm no physics major, but it seems to me i recall somthing
>about "conservation of power" & the like...so i have a question
>related to this:  where did 2 million watts of energy *go* ?  Wouldn't
>it have to be disspiated (i.e., as heat, light, a big spark, etc.)
>and/or converted to mass?  Forgive me if my ignorance is causing me to
>overlook something here...

Um, watts is a measure of power (energy per time), not energy.

If your question was, where did the couple of megajoules of energy
go:  into heat, of course.  The nuclear reactions produced energetic
helium nuclei and neutrons that lost energy to heat as they collided
with cooler atoms.  The heat got dissipated in the reactor structure
(neutrons) and the inner surface of the reactor vessel (the helium
nuclei and other plasma particles).

	Paul

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