I have now spent an enjoyable hour or so giving myself a functional lay-person's grasp of fusion energy. As a player of the original Half-Life I was, however, somewhat disturbed by this image on Wikipedia's article on Fusion power especially with the following caption:
"The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories uses an Inertial containment based system to create star core-like environments. Here a pair of scientists examine the reactor core and prepare it for tests."
I'll just be over here donning my HEV suit and getting myself a crowbar.
