Cold fusion/ regular nuclear fusion.
inertial fusion ignition
this is a new way of trying to achieve nuclear fusion. what theey do is put a very expensive "fuel pellet" inside a block of solid gold, then they fire insanely powerful lasers at it and the gold converts some of that energy into a very specific kind of x ray that heats the pellet to over 60 million degrees. this causes to like charged atoms ( the nucleus's specifically) to fuse together and overcome the repulsion giving of tremendouse amounts of energy. well almost they are very close to that.
"These lasers are pulsed, and for a very short amount of time"—one ten-billionth of a second—"the power they produce is more than all the power generated by the entire electrical grid of the United States" at any given moment,
Also, the fused atoms can nullify harmful radioactivity.
"the implosion will be like squeezing a soccer ball to the size of a pinhead,"
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100128-nuclear-fusion-power-lasers-science/
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