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A composite photograph showing all three floors of the target chamber in the
US's National Ignition Facility.
focuses a series of very powerful lasers on a pellet of frozen hydrogen in
order to heat and pressurize it to the point of fusion. But for all the effort
and expense that governments are devoting to it, nuclear fusion remains
so uncertain a prospect that nobody puts it into any projections of future
energy sources.
