inertial-confinement fusion

[i¦nər·shəl kən′fīn·mənt ‚fyü·zhən]

(nucleonics)

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In a major policy change, the Department of Energy announced last December that it will gradually declassify information related to its inertial-confinement fusion program.

Laser fusion comes into the open ... and takes another step

The discovery that has fired rocketeers' interest comes from Lawrence Livermore (Calif.) National Laboratory, where researchers have been trying to develop new targets for inertial-confinement fusion. In the course of that work, they found surges of heat within frozen hydrogen targets that they had hoped to use as fusion fuel sources.

Heat spikes: fusers chill, rocketeers cheer

Inertial-confinement fusion uses pellets of solid fuel that receive blasts of laser light or accelerated particles to induce fusions in them.