How is fusion initiated with a laser?

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How is fusion initiated with a laser? What are the difficulties that are preventing physicists from using it?

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Bob S

Sep 14, 2009

Have you read about the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Livermore? See
https://lasers.llnl.gov/programs/nic/icf/
The difficulties include billions of dollars, and decades of time.

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