Excerpt from the September 29, 1973 issue of Science News
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A powerful pulse of laser light: Step toward fusion — Science News, September 29, 1973
One spur to the development of more powerful lasers is the possibility of using them in projects seeking to gain electric power from controlled thermonuclear fusion. The idea is to use laser light to evaporate, ionize and implosively compress a solid fuel pellet and thus trigger nuclear fusions.… Now the Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerque have announced a new laser that appears to be a significant step on the way.
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