MIT students contribute to success of historic fusion experi

The High-Energy-Density Physics group at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, including nine former and current MIT students, played a key role in an historic inertial confinement fusion ignition experiment performed in 2021 that achieved fusion ignition for the first time in a laboratory.

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