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		moloch-hai on Dec 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved You answer your own question: the energy for further fusion, all the way to neutron degeneracy, is provided by gravitational collapse. The outer layers fusing provide energy for the explosion.

moloch-hai on Dec 15, 2022 [–]

... which, it must be said, is probably more important than gravitation in overcoming nuclear charge repulsion.

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