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Jay
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Didn't these guys watch Spider Man II?
Building the world's most powerful laser - Laser aims to imitate sun's center, hydrogen bomb
Cool. Looks neat. Hope it works.
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Xavier
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Perhaps I am misunderstanding, but when the ignited hygrogen/berillium pellet fuses, wouldn't the resulting explosion destroy the whole damn thing?
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Luckily, such mishaps can be remedied by dropping the whole thing into a river.
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Xavier
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I wouldn't be happy if a 5 billion dollar project gets destroyed with a successful test [Wink] .
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<insert obligatory Austin Powers reference here>
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Probably only a tiny fraction of the hydrogen in the target pellet is expected to fuse and release energy. Presumably the test chamber can handle the energy expected.
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Xavier
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With how the article protrays the people in charge of this thing, I wouldn't be surprised if its a huge disaster.

The test is successful if the energy to make the pellet fuse is less than it the energy released with the fusion, right?

Must be a very well built chamber to resist something that releases more than 180 million degrees of (presumably unfocused) energy.
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Yes, from the article the project does seem to be managed incompetently, at least in the past.
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