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Direct-Drive Laser Fusion Experiments Move Toward Target Ignition

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Conditions capable of producing a direct drive laser fusion yield that is five times higher than the current record for laser fusion energy yield have been demonstrated. The work, which shows the use of direct-drive laser fusion to compress fuel to about half the pressure required to ignite it, represents an advance in a national research initiative to develop fusion as an energy source. In a direct-drive approach to inertial confinement fusion (ICF), researchers at the University of Rochester’s Laboratory of Laser Energetics (LLE) targeted 60 laser beams to strike a millimeter-sized...Read full article

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    Published: September 2016
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    laser fusion
    Optical confinement of matter with high field energies intended to induce a stable nuclear fusion interaction.
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