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Inertial Confinement Fusion
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Magnetic Confinement Fusion PhysicsEngineeringNuclear PhysicsPhysicsLiquid Deuterium-tritiumNatural SciencesControlled Nuclear FusionFusion PowerInertial Confinement FusionPlasma PhysicsNuclear ReactionsFusion EnergyPlasma ConfinementFusion MaterialsFusion System DesignInertial Fusion EnergyCommercial Fusion Power
Commercial fusion power has proved elusive. The idea of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is to compress a 1–2 mm radius pellet containing 50–50 liquid deuterium-tritium to approximately 104 times liquid density and a central temperature of 2 keV.