Record-breaking laser pulse paves way for fusion
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Posted by David A Phillips - via NewsRack (Energy)Review
The energy required is relatively modest – 1.8 megajoules is about the energy released by a half kilogram of high explosive. But NIF delivered that energy in only 23 billionths of a second, so that its power during that period reached 411 trillion watts, 1000 times more power than the US electric grid generates on average.
