Nuclear Fusion Real Soon Now

Posted by michael on Sunday March 28, 2004 @02:29PM from the you-betcha dept.

Mr. A. Coward writes "Researchers at the National Ignition Facility are attempting to produce nuclear fusion. They'll focus 192 amplified lasers on a pellet of frozen hydrogen. 'NIF experiments will be the first to create fusion that gives off more energy than it takes in.' That will have to be quite a bit, since it will take 500 trillion watts to ignite the pellet in the first place. The facility has been plagued with delays, and so far only 4 of the 192 lasers have been completed. Researchers believe they will first achieve fusion sometime around 2014."

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Real soon? by cpopin · 2004-03-28 14:46 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Don't you mean really soon? Date an English major.

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Re:Barking up the wrnog tree? by the_2nd_coming · 2004-03-28 17:00 · Score: 0, Flamebait

thats funny because you CANT simulate such an explosion since the fusion in a thermonuclear bomb uses plutonium for its destructive force...this is nothing but hydrogen.

oh yeah...and a desktop computer could model a TNB more accurately than this thing.

so...in short...shut up you stupid uneducated "I hate everything that has the word nuclear in it" person.

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