Deuterium-Deuterium Fusion

Deuterium-Deuterium Fusion
Research Cost: 75000
Summary
We take the first step towards using the energy of suns to meet our escalating power needs.
Description
With just the naked eye (presuming we are far enough away from artificial light sources), we can glimpse millions of stars, burning in far distant galaxies. Their enduring fire is the end-product of multiple fusion reactions deep within their rolling mass of plasma. For decades, science has sought the key that would unlock this boundless energy source, and enable us to replicate it within a lab. But until now, we have been unable to contain the extreme temperatures and pressures required to safely generate and sustain man-made stars. Now, however, our engineers have achieved the previously impossible - a reactor that can hold the power of a protostar, kept in check by a combination of superconducting magnets and experimental nanomaterials. A protostar's power stems from its capability to fuse two deuterium atoms - or burning deuterium - to helium3. While the young star uses its mass and gravity to reach the necessary extreme conditions for such a process, our reactors press the fuel together using magnetic and electric fields, as well as lasers. With the power of a tiny sun burning in the heart of our every spaceship and habitat, we will be able to reach and colonize the farthest reaches of our solar system.
Full List of Prerequisites. Name Type Cost Deuterium-Tritium Fusion 50000 High-Energy Lasers 1000 Advanced Electromagnetism 1000 Photonic Computing 1500 Advanced Superconductors 3500 Advanced Carbon Manipulation 1000 Nuclear Fusion Methodologies 50000 Superalloys 5000 Advanced Atomic Manipulation 10000 Advanced Heat Management Concepts 2500 Advanced Neural Networks 5000 Particle Beams 5000 Neutronics 15000 Mission To Space 250 Vacuum Electrostatic Principles 1000 Deep Space Propulsion Concepts 1000 Nuclear Fission In Space 2500
Total Research Cost (including itself)
	133000		6500
	0		34500
	0		0
	56250	Total	230250
Direct Prerequisite For
Techs		Projects
Deuterium-Helium-3 Fusion		(100%)Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor II • (100%)Z-Pinch Fusion Reactor II • (100%)Hybrid Confinement Fusion Reactor II • (100%)Fusion Tokamak II • (100%)Electrostatic Confinement Fusion Reactor II • (100%)Mirror Cell Fusion Reactor II
Effects
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Quote
"It is a miracle of engineering and physics, yes. But, romantically, standing next to a heavy hydrogen fusion reactor is the closest you'll ever get to a star." Chancellor Li Qingzhao, The Academy Public Lecture Seeing the Wonders of Engineering and Science at the Xi'an Jiaotong University
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