During the experiment, 192 of the world's most energetic lasers hit a millimeter capsule filled with hydrogen. This turned the capsule into a hot plasma that quickly collapsed into a tiny sphere about 18,000 times hotter than the surface of the sun and experienced more than 100 million times the pressure of Earth's atmosphere.⁠
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Under these extreme conditions, the hydrogen atoms merged and released 1.3 megajoules of energy, the equivalent of 10 quadrillion watts of power for 100 trillionths of a second. This is the highest energy efficiency ever achieved by NIF.

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