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The stages of inertial confinement fusion:

Laser beams or laser-produced X-rays rapidly heat the surface of the fusion target, forming a surrounding plasma envelope.
Fuel is compressed by the rocket-like blowoff of the hot surface material.
During the final part of the capsule implosion, the fuel core reaches 20 times the density of lead and ignites at 100,000,000 ˚C.
Thermonuclear burn spreads rapidly through the compressed fuel, yielding many times the input energy.

The blue arrows represent radiation; orange is blowoff; purple is inwardly transported thermal energy.

Date

5 July 2007

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Originally uploaded to the English Wikipedia as Inertial confinement fusion.jpg by Deglr6328; marked as a work of the U.S. government and therefore as a public domain image. This version created by bdesham with Inkscape.

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Benjamin D. Esham (bdesham)

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	17:33, 10 August 2023	800 × 200 (5 KB)	Justinkunimune	Make ablated plasma lighter to indicated how much less dense it is, remove large blue circle around stage 3 (not sure what it represents, but it makes it look like the capsule grows then gets smaller again), remove blue arrows around stage 3 (radiation pressure is not important at peak compression)
	01:28, 3 May 2022	800 × 200 (5 KB)	Bdesham	Use yellow arrows within the orange circle for better contrast
	09:25, 29 March 2021	800 × 200 (5 KB)	Mrmw	simpler code
	17:54, 5 July 2007	740 × 210 (80 KB)	Bdesham	adding slightly more white space around the edges
	14:24, 5 July 2007	735 × 205 (126 KB)	Bdesham	{{User:Bdesham/Information \| Description = The stages of inertial confinement fusion: # Laser beams or laser-produced X-rays rapidly heat the surface of the fusion target, forming a surrounding plasma envelope. # Fuel is compressed by the rocket-like blow