{"id":304069,"date":"2010-02-09T12:10:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T17:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21868"},"modified":"2010-02-09T12:10:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T17:10:24","slug":"world%e2%80%99s-largest-laser-to-achieve-nuclear-fusion-with-%e2%80%98stream-of-exploding-stars%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/304069","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Largest Laser To Achieve Nuclear Fusion With \u2018Stream of Exploding Stars\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All those Flash Gordon-style death ray machines come to mind in this report on laser-generated nuclear fusion, at <a href=\"http:\/\/environmentalresearchweb.org\/cws\/article\/futures\/41615\">EnvironmentalResearchWeb<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Researchers in the US say they have made a crucial breakthrough towards achieving laser fusion and that they expect to generate the conditions for a sustained nuclear reaction by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>These claims are backed up by the publication of the first science results from the National Ignition Facility (NIF) and among the highlights was a new world record for laser intensity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[disinfo ed.: The National Ignition Facility, the world&#8217;s largest laser system, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, was featured in the BBC broadcast &#8220;Horizon&#8221; hosted by physicist Brian Cox. Here is the NIF portion of the program, which was entitled &#8220;Can We Make A Star On Earth?&#8221;]<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All those Flash Gordon-style death ray machines come to mind in this report on laser-generated nuclear fusion, at EnvironmentalResearchWeb: Researchers in the US say they have made a crucial breakthrough towards achieving laser fusion and that they expect to generate the conditions for a sustained nuclear reaction by the end of the year. These claims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304069","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\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}