Except... correct me if I'm wrong here... The "reactor" did destroy itself. > The fuel and canister get vaporized within a few billionths of a second during th

Except... correct me if I'm wrong here... The "reactor" did destroy itself. > The fuel and canister get vaporized within a few billionths of a second during the experiment. Researchers then hope their equipment survived the heat and accurately measured the energy released by the fusion reaction. It didn't necessarily blow up like a fusion bomb, but the energy was hardly produced in any sort of sustainable, ongoing form that we can harvest. Worse - it's not even just the chamber that essentially destroys itself - the lasers that create the event also damage themselves: https://lasers.llnl.gov/news/controlling-backscatter-damage-nif-optics https://lasers.llnl.gov/news/controlling-backscatter-damage-...