Burning plasma achieved in inertial fusion

A burning plasma has been recently achieved at the National Ignition Facility in the US: a paper in the Figaro magazine on 28/01/2022 could be read here (in french only).

On the same subject, listen to the podcast of the 7pm radio news programme of France Inter on Sunday 30/01/2022 (from 11 min 25).

Read the scientific articles:

• A.B. Zylstra and colleagues in Nature 601, 542 (2022)
• A.L. Kritcher and colleagues in Nature Physics 18, 251 (2022)