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Watch the premiere of Ignited: How Close is Fusion Energy? on EarthX next Monday, April 27, at 9|8c.

Lasers ignited a successful nuclear fusion reaction for the first time. But there are quite some obstacles to overcome to move nuclear fusion technology into something we can really use. What forecast is realistic?

The nuclear fusion breakthrough has raised high hopes for clean power. This documentary shows the context behind the breakthrough. It explains nuclear fusion, one of the most complicated things you can imagine, in a way that a broad audience will be able to understand what it really means for us. The audience will be impressed by the huge and complex international fusion experiments. Watching and maybe smiling about the artistic graphic animations, they will grasp what's going on in a nuclear fusion reaction, why it is so hard to create it on earth and how the different nuclear fusion approaches try to make it happen.


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00:02In laser fusion, we use a tiny bead with a diameter of only around 2 mm.
00:07This bead falls into the center of a large spherical target chamber,
00:12and laser beams are shot at this bead from all sides.
00:15This bead is heated up considerably. It evaporates outwards.
00:19And as a recoil, the inside of this sphere is compressed into the center,
00:24where conditions then prevail similar to those in the center of the sun.
00:30And with these conditions, we ignite the fusion.
00:33And from the inside out, a fusion wave then spreads through this fuel, eating it up,
00:38delivering around 100 times more energy than you put in via the laser beams.
00:43And now you have to do this 10 times a second.
00:46You have to shoot one of these pellets into the reactor and ignite it.
00:52Then you have a power plant with an output of around 1 gigawatt of electricity.
00:58which is comparable to a large coal-fired power plant.
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