North Korea Announces Achieving Nuclear Fusion

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 12, 2010 @05:36AM from the kim-jong-illin dept.

aftertaf writes "North Korea claims to have achieved nuclear fusion by building what it describes as a 'unique thermo-nuclear reaction device.' This announcement was met by skepticism on just about every news website this side of Saturn. Pyongyang claims its latest scientific breakthrough coincides with the birthday of the country's founder and eternal president Kim Il-sung. This is not the first time it seems that the laws of nature have been bent in his honor. According to official biographies, when his son, Kim Jong-il, was born, a new star appeared in the sky." No doubt the Dear Leader combined the atomic nuclei by hand.

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Fusion isn't hard. by pushing-robot · 2010-05-12 05:41 · Score: 5, Informative

You could build the equipment yourself.
Getting more energy out of fusion than you put in... that's the hard part.

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Fusion is easy. by Futurepower(R) · 2010-05-12 08:02 · Score: 4, Informative

Note that experimenters have built Tokamaks and achieved fusion. Fusion is easy. Getting more power out than is put in is difficult.