Burning plasma achieved in inertial fusion - Nature.com

A burning plasma, a critical step towards self-sustaining fusion, is achieved at the US National Ignition Facility, with a subset of experiments demonstrating fusion self-heating beyond radiation and conduction losses.
Terminology Definitions of commonly used mathematical symbols are summarized in Extended Data Table 2. Reproducibility Experiments subsequent to those described in this Article have demonstrated t… [+20487 chars] Read More