Sentences with phrase «crushing tiny capsules»
Inertial confinement fusion achieves this by crushing tiny capsules of fuel with intense laser or magnetic field pulses to achieve the required conditions.
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Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) seeks to create those conditions by taking a tiny capsule of fusion fuel (typically a mixture of the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium) and crushing it at high speed using some form of «driver,» such as lasers, particle beams, or magnetic pulses.
NIF, in contrast, takes a tiny capsule filled with hydrogen fuel and crushes it with a powerful laser pulse.