Fusion is in a sense very much the opposite of fission, traditional nuclear reactions that we already leverage. You have to really carefully balance the lasers to keep the confinement happening and keep the pressure there until it takes off. It's extremely difficult, because basically everything has to work perfectly. In 192 lasers, and probably a chaotic dynamic reaction of some form of explosion and interaction there.

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