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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by moloch-hai on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @09:44AM (#33984100)
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.
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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by moloch-hai on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @07:20PM (#33993029)
... which, it must be said, is probably more important than gravitation in overcoming nuclear charge repulsion.
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