The findings here are very important, and this is a good article overall, but it focuses pretty narrowly on one source and one experiment. That said, the overcoming of these obstacles goes a long way toward viable fusion. This article ends on a somewhat uncritically optimistic note, though.

Informative story on laser fusion experiments under way at the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, California. This factual report gives a good overview on this technology and its potential for large-scale energy production. More independent perspectives would have helped: only one other source is cited in this article, and it's another scientist leading Europe's HiPer laser fusion project. An interesting and well-researched article nonetheless.

No mention of costs, or scale up problems. This is interesting physics, and accentuates the positive, as one might expect was necessary to continue the financing of the experiments. More information is called for.

This article helps me to understand what the NIF is doing, and it includes one viewpoint from outside the NIF.

This is as significant to fusion power as the Chicago pile reation was to nuclear power.

Dated report, according to the article tests that were to ramp up to the point of ignition were to start "...before May", updates attached to this article would be nice.

This is a layman's summary of a somewhat technical article found in the Mar. 5, 2010 issue of Science Magazine. As such, it helps advance public understanding of state of art in fusion power generation.