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How much energy can people create at one time without losing control?

  • Written by Xuejian Wu, Assistant Professor of Physics, Rutgers University - Newark
imageFire a set of high-power lasers at a tiny speck of hydrogen isotopes and you can initiate nuclear fusion, the process that powers the Sun.National Ignition Facilityimage

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