Brian May Explains Nuclear Fusion

Thursday morning and i was stood swearing at the coffee machine when my boss came up and said 'Ah Lucy, could you get hold of one of your science bod's and have a bit of a chat to find out about this Nuclear Fusion thingy'.
'No Problem' i said and went back to threatening the machine with smashing its face in with a chair but by the time i got back to my desk, gossiped about Nigel from Accountants and ate my croissant it was mid-morning and the British Science Association was at their Christmas meal and the guy's at the British Journal for the History of Science wasn't answering their phones so in desperation i flitted through my phone looking for a celebrity with a science degree who could help me before my boss came back.
My usual go to is Brian Cox for anything science nerdy but he was up a mountain in Peru and the voicemail of his TV science partner, Dara Ó Briain, said he was unavailable due to a Guinness related incident so i considered other science degree holders such as Dexter Holland of the Offspring, comedian Harry Hill, Actors Dolph Lundgren and Lisa Kudrow and even Rowan Atkinson but decided to give Brian May a call who was only too happy to oblige.
'So Brian' i began, 'Tell me about Nuclear Fusion. Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?'
'The nuclear reaction that combines two atoms to create one or more new atoms with slightly less total mass? he asked, 'where the difference in mass is released as energy, as described by Einstein's famous equation, E = mc^2 , where energy equals mass times the speed of light squared'?
'Feck knows' i thought but said 'That's it, so what's happened with it?
Apparently American scientists shot 192 lasers at a pellet of hydrogen which produced X-rays that heated and compress the fuel pellet to about 20 times the density of lead and to more than 100 times hotter than the surface of the Sun.
'Wow, i bet they said Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here'
'Hmm, probably, but it released more energy than the fusion process to deliver it'
'Sounds very interesting' i lied,' 'i can see why that would sends shivers down your spine, body's aching all the time so it's kinda like a shooting star leaping through the sky like a tiger defying the laws of gravity, burnin' through the sky, and this is a big deal because...'?
'Well Nuclear Fusion energy is the holy grail of energy production, they have been trying to accomplish it for decades and is the first steps towards a viable energy source which doesn't cause pollution'.
'Since Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, magnificoo. So they've paid their dues time after time, made bad mistakes and had their share of sand kicked in their face but they've come through so to speak?
'I guess' he replied then said he really had to go as he had some badger to go see so i said i understood that he was busy and had just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here and thanked him for his time.
So there you have it, Nuclear Fusion, now watch some warmongering tosser in Moscow, Washington or London turn it into an even more powerful bomb.