Laser Fusion, a Feasible Alternative to the Classic Approach - Softpedia

Laser Fusion, a Feasible Alternative to the Classic Approach - Softpedia: "European laser scientists will benefit from funds amounting to �500m which will used to build a laser fusion facility.

The team, consisting of scientists from seven European Union countries, thinks that a �fast ignition� laser facility would significantly contribute to fusion research, as well as to other areas of physics.

The laser would be used to compress and heat a small capsule of deuterium and tritium until the nuclei are hot enough to undergo nuclear fusion and produce helium and neutrons. In a reactor the energy of the neutrons would be used to generate electricity without the emission of greenhouse gases or the generation of long-lived nuclear waste. "