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Plasma physics

Z-fusion makes progress

08 Apr 2003 Isabelle Dumé

Physicists in the US have demonstrated nuclear fusion in a “Z pinch” for the first time. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories observed neutrons produced by the fusion of deuterium nuclei at the lab’s Z facility – the world’s most powerful X-ray source. The results were presented at a meeting of the American Physical Society in Philadelphia yesterday.

Z machine
Fusion is the process that powers stars and, if harnessed in the laboratory, could provide a clean a

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