• the British Rail flying saucer was an unbuilt nuclear fusion powered space craft, proposed and patented in the 1970s by British Rail?
• instead of simply heating particles, the Migma fusion reactor uses small particle accelerators to initiate a fusion reaction?

Facts on topics related to Nuclear fusion

Fusion power

• Fusion Energy Foundation was a proponent of fusion energy and the Strategic Defense Initiative before it was closed down for fraudulent fundraising practices?
• despite projections of producing four times as much power as it used in heating, the Riggatron fusion reactor was never built due to a lack of funding?
• instead of simply heating particles, the Migma fusion reactor uses small particle accelerators to initiate a fusion reaction?

Nuclear fission

• physicists Herbert Anderson, Eugene Booth, G. N. Glasoe, John Dunning, Francis Slack and Enrico Fermi worked on splitting atoms in the basement of Pupin Hall, Columbia University in 1939?

Radiation therapy

• Maurice Lenz, a physician, professor, and radiation therapy pioneer, was internationally known amongst his peers for his fluency in English, Russian, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish?

Plutonium

• Room 307, Gilman Hall on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where the element plutonium was discovered, is a United States National Historic Landmark?
• IR-40, an Iranian heavy water reactor, could produce 10 kilograms (22 lb) to 12 kilograms (26 lb) of plutonium, enough to build two nuclear weapons, each year?
• forensic scientist Paul Kirk, who is known for his work on the Sam Sheppard case, worked to isolate fissionable plutonium on the Manhattan Project?

Nuclear technology

• in a major improvement in bilateral relations in 2008, Pakistan proposed sharing nuclear technology with Bangladesh?

Plasma (physics)

• stellar magnetic fields create loops of plasma that arc over the surface of a star?

Nuclear reaction

• Henry Moore's Nuclear Energy sculpture was erected and dedicated to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the first self-sustaining controlled nuclear reaction?
• the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago built the first nuclear reactor and achieved a self-sustaining nuclear reaction in December 1942?
  

Fusion

• the early musical influences of Austrian jazz-fusion guitarist Alex Machacek, who has been praised by legends like John McLaughlin, included heavy metal bands like Iron Maiden and KISS?