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Calculate the energy that can be obtained from 1 kg of water through the fusion reaction
``^2H+`^2H rarr `^3H +p.
Assume that `1.5xx10^(-2)%`of natural water is heavy water `D_2 O`(by number of molecules ) and all the deuterium is used for fusion.

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