Inertial confinement fusion (VIDEO)

University of Delaware

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This animation illustrates inertial confinement fusion, which is achieved by using high-powered lasers to drive a spherical implosion and is a focus of new research by Arijit Bose of the University of Delaware.

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UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE/Jeffrey Chase

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