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Fusion Researchers Set New Record For Ignoring My Wish To Be Consumed By The Heat Of Seven Suns

A laser's view of the interior of a hohlraum, the capsule at the ignition point of the fusion reaction.

Researchers Have Once Again Kicked Fusion’s Ass With Bitchin’ Lasers

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What’s All This Nuclear Fusion Business? Allow Me, A True Expert, To Explain

Good News For Species Sick Of Existing: Scientists Have Taught An AI How To Manipulate Jillion-Degree Plasma

Could A Handful Of Swallowed Metal Ball Bearings And Exposure To The World’s Strongest Magnets Cause My Torso To Explode Into A Cloud Of Viscera? A Scientific Examination

A view of the interior of the National Ignition Facility target chamber.

Fusion Researchers Achieve Energy Breakthrough Capable Of Almost Powering One Easy-Bake Oven

Terrifying New Record Achieved In Humanity’s Quest To Manufacture A Literal Star

Mankind One Step Closer To Dominion Over Star Juice

A cool look at something called a preamplifier, which is part of the National Ignition Facility's effort at creating a self-sustaining fusion reaction.

President-Elect Joe Biden Must Direct The National Ignition Facility To Fire 192 Lasers At My Solar Plexus

A look at my fully operational JET-style tokamak, churning out big numbers of what could be power but might in fact be deadly radiation.

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They Made An Interactive Virtual Tokamak And Buddy, It Rules

Rendering of SPARC, a compact, high-field, DT burning tokamak, currently under design by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Its mission is to create and confine a plasma that produces net fusion energy.

Two Fusion Researchers Explain The Tokamak Reactor That I Want To Be Hurled Into

An engineer walks past a hulking cryostat in the construction zone of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, in France.

If Scientists Are To Create And Harness The Unfathomable Power Of A Star, They Must Agree To Hurl Me Into It

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