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Massive Funding for Nuclear Fusion Projects, Business and Industry Trends Analysis

Nuclear fusion is an atomic energy-releasing process in which light weight atomic nuclei, which might be hydrogen or deuterium, combine to form heavier nuclei, such as helium.  The result is the release of a tremendous amount of energy in the form of heat.  This is essentially the same process that produces energy in the Sun and other stars.  It may be many years before nuclear fusion becomes a practical commercial energy source (if it ever does), but several well-funded efforts are attempting to do so.  The hope is that fusion could eventually be used as a high output, low pollution energy source for the production of electric power.

In 2009, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California completed the National Ignition Facility (www.llnl.gov/nif ).  Laser technology is one of today’s bright hopes for making fusion popular, and this facility will utilize one of the largest lasers in the world.  It is capable of delivering 500 million megawatts of power in a pulse that lasts 20 billionths of a second.  The facility took 12 years to build and cost $3.5 billion.  As of 2016, LLNL was constructing a $45 million High Repetition-Rate Advanced Petawatt Laser System for the Extreme Light Infrastructure Beamlines facility in the Czech Republic.  The system is expected to deliver peak power greater than one petawatt.



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