Coming up on the next episode of Star Talk, it's fusion and lasers all the way,

featuring the acting director of the National Ignition Facility of Lawrence Livermore National

Labs. We're going to find out why does ignition need such high temperatures in order to make the fusion,

this holy grail of the production of energy, and how is it that our special guest for that show

managed to cast shade on the sun? Those are fighting words to an astrophysicist. Also, where do you

find tritium? At the local store, in mines, in the universe, where do you get it? And also, will fusion

ever be portable? All of that and more on this next episode of Star Talk.

Welcome to Star Talk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.

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This is Star Talk. Today, we're going to talk about fusion and lasers.

Coast, Chuck Nice. How you doing, man? Hey, Neil, how are you?

Yeah, fusion and lasers have been in all the news. Who would have thought?

It is the hottest thing going. Okay, I'm sorry. Oh, I see what you did there.

God, I'm so sorry. And we did a little explainer video, and I got people comfortable with what

was going on at the Lawrence Livermore Labs. Yeah. But we thought, why don't we just get,

why don't we just get somebody from the labs? Okay, why not? That sounds good. So allow me to

introduce you and our audience to our special guest, Dr. Bruno von Lumpurim from the National

Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Labs. Bruno, welcome to Star Talk.

All right. My pleasure. Okay. Excellent. Excellent. Bruno, you are, you definitely, you have to be

Dutch. Yes. Are you feeling it? Yeah. Okay. You know why? Because, oh, yeah, that was such a Dutch

answer. Like, you know what I mean? All right. Okay. That's how you do it. That's how you do it.

That's how you do it. That's how you do it. That's how you do it. That's how you do it.

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