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Through certain techniques, a deuterium nucleus and a tritium nucleus can be made to fuse at very low kinetic energy to form an α - particle and a neutron. Find the energy released in this reaction in MeV.

mc2 (deuterium) = 1875.613 MeV
mc2 (tritium) = 2808.921 MeV
mc2 (α - particle) = 3727.379 MeV
mc2 (neutron) = 939.565 MeV

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