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		blamestross on Dec 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved A Hydrogen Bomb. It is basically using a nuke (fission) to trigger fusion instead of lasers.

willis936 on Dec 13, 2022 [–]

That is a run away fission reaction that ignites a short lived fusion reaction. We don't even talk about neutron populations or k factors in fusion because there is no avalanche effect possible.

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