in a prototype laser fusion reactor at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Exciting stuff:"The National Ignition Facility will focus 192 laser beams on a hydrogen pellet the size of a bead, heating it to incredible temperatures in an attempt to recreate the power of the sun. Nuclear fusion would create huge amounts of energy from tiny amounts of fuel. It would produce far less radioactive waste than conventional nuclear reactors. But it takes huge amounts of energy to trigger, and so far humans have managed to do so only by detonating atomic bombs."It's literally a star factory. Faster, please.
Image courtesy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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