Burning plasma achieved in inertial fusion - Nature

A new Nature research paper reports the self-heating of matter in a plasma state through nuclear fusion, a milestone towards fusion energy potentially becoming a viable energy source

Proc. 12th USENIX Symp. Operating Systems Design and Implementation We thank B. Coppi , S. C. Cowley , D. Whyte , J. Hammer , M. Farrell and J. Kline for discussions. The contributions of NIF operations and target fabrication teams to the success of these experiments are acknowledged. This work was performed under the auspices of the US Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under contract DE-AC52-07NA27344.

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