/sci/ - Science & Math

>>6086096
Forgetting the event that lead to the name of the swimwear featured in OP's pic?

This is a fusion detonation, just like the famous event on Bikini Atoll, only it uses a wimpier chemical power source.

It's not a sustained reaction, like they're aiming for with ITER. And it's only more energy from fusion than used to ignite fusion in a certain narrow technical sense: the complete apparatus used many times more energy than was released by fusion.

They've still got to improve on this by a couple orders of magnitude before it could be a practical energy source.

>>6075720
>it proves that it's possible to run a positive-output fusion reaction on Earth
That was proved on Bikini Atoll, leading to the atomic swimsuit.

This is not really proof of anything, other than that the NIF is making progress, which is good news.