Inertial confinement represents one of two viable approaches for producing energy from the fusion of hydrogen isotopes. Scientists have now achieved a record yield of fusion energy when directly irradiating targets with only 28 kilojoules of laser energy.
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Tikhonchuk, V. A boost for laser fusion. Nat. Phys. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-02379-8
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