inertial confinement


is: confinement of a plasma by virtue of the inertia of the material in the plasma - so that it stays together for a sufficient time for nuclear fusion to begin within it.   [P9.3]

requires: that the plasma be created within a very short time scale. This is done through irradiation by an intense pulsed laser beam or beam of particles.   [P9.3]


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