1. He then realized that this approach might be useful for starting a thermonuclear reaction . 2. The stadium-sized laser is designed to let scientists study thermonuclear reactions without full-scale weapons testing. 3. Houtermans, in 1929, with Robert d'Escourt Atkinson, made the first calculation of stellar thermonuclear reactions . 4. So energetic is this imaginary machine that using it would be like harnessing a thermonuclear reaction . 5. A stray missile fired during the war causes the sun's thermonuclear reactions to go out of control. 6. It is possible to replicate, on a smaller scale, some of the thermonuclear reactions that power the sun. 7. In the second part of his work, he describes how to obtain electricity from a controlled thermonuclear reaction . 8. If fusion were achieved, a microbubble could be expected to radiate neutrons, nuclear particles produced by thermonuclear reactions . 9. This can lead to runaway thermonuclear reactions and the massive explosion of the star in a Type I supernova. 10. Gamma emission from these isomers may have enough energy to start a thermonuclear reaction , without requiring any fissile material.