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It all started as an idea by a DESY lead scientist specialising in ultrashort laser pulses, an optical lasers expert, and a beamline scientist running an extreme-states-of-matter beamline: now it's a project funded with 14 million euro by the German Ministry for Research, Technology, and Space (BMFTR) across four institutes. DESY, University of Hamburg, Universität Rostock, and Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) all comprise the IFuEL project, led by DESY lead scientist and Uni Hamburg physics professor Franz Kaertner. The aim of IFuEL: developing laser technologies and other systems for inertial confinement fusion (ICF), one method of approaching the process of fusion, the nuclear reaction that powers the sun and other stars. The project strengthens DESY's role in fusion research in Germany: Sustainably energy-positive fusion would completely revolutionise how we generate power. IFuEL technologies will be developed in such a way to be used in a future prototype fusion reactor. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dKn24_hT