The Megajoule Laser has made its first tests successfully. France becomes with the United States one of only two powers capable of simulating a nuclear explosion.
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The Megajoule Laser has made its first tests successfully. France becomes with the United States one of only two powers capable of simulating a nuclear explosion.
176 hyper-powerful lasers pointing to a sphere of 140 tons whose center will reach a temperature of about 100 million degrees, a pressure of 100 billion bars and densities close to that of the center of the Sun.
Two unknowns remain. The first concerns what the CEA researchers call the ultimate experiment, that is to say the nuclear fusion obtained by vaporization of a capsule filled with a mixture of deuterium-tritium. The American precedent makes it cautious. Persuaded to get there from 2012, the NIF stumbles on unresolved difficulties. French side, we announce nothing before ten years.
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