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The stages of inertial confinement fusion:

  1. Laser beams or laser-produced X-rays rapidly heat the surface of the fusion target, forming a surrounding plasma envelope.
  2. Fuel is compressed by the rocket-like blowoff of the hot surface material.
  3. During the final part of the capsule implosion, the fuel core reaches 20 times the density of lead and ignites at 100,000,000 ˚C.
  4. Thermonuclear burn spreads rapidly through the compressed fuel, yielding many times the input energy.
The blue arrows represent radiation; orange is blowoff; purple is inwardly transported thermal energy.
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Author Benjamin D. Esham (bdesham)
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current17:33, 10 August 2023Thumbnail for version as of 17:33, 10 August 2023800 × 200 (5 KB)wikimediacommons>JustinkunimuneMake ablated plasma lighter to indicated how much less dense it is, remove large blue circle around stage 3 (not sure what it represents, but it makes it look like the capsule grows then gets smaller again), remove blue arrows around stage 3 (radiation pressure is not important at peak compression)

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