How to Use nuclear fusion in a Sentence

nuclear fusion

noun

• At that time, our Sun’s core will run out of the hydrogen needed for nuclear fusion.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 2 June 2023
• The nuclear fusion reaction no longer takes place, which makes white dwarfs very dim.
  — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 21 May 2024
• Said star was a white dwarf, the type of stellar remnant that forms when a star with a mass similar to that of the sun runs out of fuel for nuclear fusion.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 2 July 2025
• There are yet more ways to achieve nuclear fusion, and the US is hedging its bets on a variety of technologies.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 19 Sep. 2024
• Yet blobs of dark matter were busy pulling in the surrounding gas, some of it condensing enough to set off nuclear fusion.
  — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Jan. 2025
• The buzz around nuclear fusion has kicked into overdrive in recent years.
  — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 11 June 2025
• The total time those puzzles stayed in the right place was 2.2 seconds—by nuclear fusion standards, that’s a pretty good result.
  — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 3 May 2024
• While those stars burn, nuclear fusion exhorts an outward push to counter the gravitational pull of the star’s own mass.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2025
• There’s hope that Helion, a nuclear fusion start-up that has a deal with Microsoft, may build its first substation at the Malaga site.
  — Jovelle Tamayo, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
• This could go mainstream much faster than, say, power from nuclear fusion and be far less expensive.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
• Once a red giant has shed its last layers of gas, its compact core contracts further, leading to a last burst of nuclear fusion.
  — Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 15 Apr. 2025
• The result is nuclear fusion, where the two separate atoms are replaced with a single, larger atom.
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
• In that respect, beamed power from space is like nuclear fusion, except at least 25 years behind.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 9 May 2024
• Polaris 2024 Helion isn't alone in the race to make nuclear fusion a reality.
  — New Atlas, 29 Jan. 2025
• And since the red dwarf is still hot, there will eventually be a spark that triggers a runaway nuclear fusion reaction.
  — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 21 May 2024
• Our ongoing struggle with the high cost and challenges of nuclear fusion as an energy source is resolved by AGI.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
• Eventually, they were so thoroughly compressed that nuclear fusion got going—and boom, the very first stars lit up the universe.
  — Robin George Andrews, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2025
• That isn't the case with white dwarfs, which form when stars like the sun run out of fuel for nuclear fusion, shedding their outer layers as their cores collapse and forming a cooling stellar ember.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Mar. 2025
• The hope is that the bills will promote the development of nuclear fusion in Wisconsin, which is the same source of energy that powers the sun and stars, instead of nuclear fission.
  — Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 2 July 2025
• Think about a nuclear fusion reaction in the core of a star, where two hydrogen atoms, each with a single proton, combine to become a helium atom, with two.
  — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2024
• Not so fast, experts say This announcement adds to a number of other nuclear fusion breakthroughs.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 1 Apr. 2024
• In 2022, the NIF carried out a nuclear fusion experiment in which a laser shot produced more energy from fusion than the laser energy used to drive it.
  — Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
• The first of these is about nuclear fusion — a process of merging lighter atoms with heavier ones, releasing massive amounts of carbon-emission-free energy.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 12 May 2023
• As the name suggests, nuclear fusion combines hydrogen atoms to generate energy – the same process that powers the Sun and other stars.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
• Red giants form when stars have exhausted their supply of hydrogen for nuclear fusion and begin to die.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Feb. 2024
• And if nuclear fusion ever transitions from the research and development stage to practical, real-world use, San Diego will be in the middle of it.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2023
• Here’s the story from Renata Geraldo at the Seattle Times, who writes that green hydrogen and nuclear fusion are some of the ideas being thrown around to produce clean power and maintain jobs.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
• As the science of nuclear fusion continues to advance, tackling some of the smaller issues that arise through advancing research can have a big impact.
  — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 8 Oct. 2024
• Jeff Bezos has been investing in nuclear fusion since 2011.
  — Suwanna Gauntlett Upjohn, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
• Large-scale nuclear fusion is thought to be a promising clean energy solution, but scientists believe that the practicality of its use on the planet is limited.
  — Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025