{"id":245143,"date":"2010-01-28T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:2187974"},"modified":"2010-01-28T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T22:32:00","slug":"is-fusion-success-in-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/245143","title":{"rendered":"Is fusion success in sight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV align=center><br \/>\n<TABLE id=table1><br \/>\n<TBODY><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><IMG border=1 src=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/i\/MSNBC\/Components\/Photo\/_new\/100128-coslog-hohlraum-466px-10a.jpg\" width=466 height=305><BR><br \/>\n<DIV align=right><FONT size=1 face=Tahoma align=\"right\">LLNL<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<DIV align=left><FONT size=1 face=Verdana align=\"left\">At the National Ignition Facility, the power of 192 lasers will be focused on a <BR>gold-plated cylinder like this one, containing a pea-sized pellet of fusion fuel.<BR><br \/>\n<HR><br \/>\n<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/DIV><br \/>\n<P>Experiments at the <A href=\"https:\/\/lasers.llnl.gov\/\">National Ignition Facility<\/A> have given researchers confidence that they&#8217;ll achieve a milestone in nuclear fusion sometime this year.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The tests involved blasting a cylinder the size of a pencil eraser, known as a &#8220;hohlraum,&#8221; with 192 laser beams and seeing whether&nbsp;researchers could tweak the energy to create the right kind of implosion. The results suggested that they could &#8211; and that the $3.5 billion blaster in California just might produce the world&#8217;s first controlled fusion reaction, with more energy coming out than going in.<\/P>&#8230;(<a href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2010\/01\/28\/2187974.aspx\">read more<\/a>)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2187974\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LLNL At the National Ignition Facility, the power of 192 lasers will be focused on a gold-plated cylinder like this one, containing a pea-sized pellet of fusion fuel. Experiments at the National Ignition Facility have given researchers confidence that they&#8217;ll achieve a milestone in nuclear fusion sometime this year. The tests involved blasting a cylinder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}