This calls for the lasers to be very finely tuned and the fuel pellet to be perfectly smooth, so that the implosion is symmetrical and fusion occurs.

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Cuomo accused Mr. Ceglia of defrauding customers of his wood-pellet fuel company, according to a news release from the Attorney General's office.

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The proposals, for the south bank of the river, include storage facilities for imported wood pellet bio fuel.

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The U.K. company AWE and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory have joined-forces with the National Ignition Facility in the U.S. to help provide energy using Inertial Confinement Fusion, in which a pellet of fuel is heated using powerful lasers.

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An alternative is Inertial confinement fusion (ICF), in which fusion of nuclei is initiated by heating and compressing a fuel target, typically in the form of a pellet containing deuterium and tritium contained in a device called a hohlraum (hollow space or cavity) using an extremely powerful laser.

FORBES: U.K. And U.S. Join Forces on Laser-Fusion Energy