for this breakthrough experiment. thank you very much for joining us tonight. i did not dare take physics in high school. so, could you please explain this so even an anchor man has a chance of understanding? sure, so, what we are doing here is combining two light nuclei, so when they undergo a nuclear reaction, release energy. the way we do this is that we essentially have to create a miniature star in the laboratory with giant lasers. what we do is shine the giant lasers on to the inside of a gold can or cylinder, about the size of a top of a pencil eraser. we create a hot x-ray bath inside of that cylinder, it s about 3 million degrees x-ray bath. that explodes the outside of a bb sized cylinder, which holds the fusion fuel. this accelerates the fusion fuel inwardly, and an implosion, so it s a rocket-like effect. and then we can get to the right pressures and temperatures from that inward
times the pressure the sun in the last experiment, and about 150 million degrees. joining us now is andy a creature, the physicist from the lawrence livermore national laboratory. she is the principal designer for this breakthrough experiment. thank you very much for joining us tonight. i did not dare take physics in high school. so, could you please explain this so even an anchor man has a chance of understanding? sure, so, what we are doing here is combining to light nuclei, so when they undergo a nuclear reactor reactionary, leases energy. the way we do this, is that we essentially have to create a miniature star and the laboratory with giant lasers. what we do, is shine the giant lasers on to the inside of a gold can or cylinder, about the size of a top of a pencil eraser. we create a hot x-rayed bat inside of that cylinder, it s