S4E3 – Routes to Ignition

Posted 19 November 2021

The concept of ignition in inertial confinement fusion is super important – we need to produce enough heat to ignite our fuel and get lots of fusion reactions (and therefore energy) out of it. We speak with Professor Riccardo Betti about the approaches to moving towards ignition, how you know it’s happened and what needs to be done before we can get there.