Laser Megajoule fuel pellets. The Laser Megajoule (LMJ) is an experimental nuclear fusion device being built near Bordeaux,France. Its design uses 240 laser beams and 1.8 megajoules of power to heat a target fuel pellet (four seen here) to the point where fusion and power generation occurs. It uses the inertial confinement fusion (ICF) method. The spherical fuel pellets are each less than a millimetre across,and consist of deuterium-tritium fusion fuel. Construction of the LMJ started with the Laser Integration Line (LIL,8 lasers),completed in 2002 and due to be expanded into the full LMJ by 2012. Photographed at the Valduc facility of the French Atomic Agency (CEA) | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Landmann, Patrick |
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