China's investment in fusion research is not unprecedented. The country has been developing laser technologies for inertial confinement fusion (ICF) since the late 20th century. Currently ...

Summarized, the stages in ICF to achieve fusion involve heating up ... This in turn causes more fusion events inside the fuel, triggering a chain reaction which ideally fuses all of the fuel ...

Despite this, it’s good to see that the NIF’s ICF research is bearing fruit, even if for energy production we should look towards magnetic confinement fusion (MCF), which includes the many ...