In one device in which this process occurs, lasers
In one device in which this process occurs, lasers are fired at both apertures of a hohlraum. This process is employed in the secondary in the Teller-Ulam device. Another device in which it occurs is covered in a lithium blanket, which breeds tritium from fast neutrons; that device is a tokamak, in which a plasma is magnetically confined. Muon catalysis lowers the activation energy for this process over a million-fold. Astrophysically, this occurs in the proton-proton chain, which culminates in the formation of helium and is the primary source of energy in the sun. For 10 points, name this process in which lighter elements are combined to form heavier elements.
In one device in which this process occurs, lasers are fired at both apertures of a hohlraum.