Problems with fuel pellets for laser‐induced fusion

The nature of fuel pellets and their implications for laser‐induced fusion are a little less mysterious since the AEC declassification of information regarding them. (See PHYSICS TODAY, February, page 78.) This previously withheld information was quickly disseminated because the secrecy was lifted just before two pertinent conferences—the meeting of the APS Plasma Division in Albuquerque, N. M. during 28–31 October and the Fifth IAEA Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research held in Tokyo, Japan 1–15 November.