From the article: "Scientists at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Livermore, nestled among the wine-producing vineyards of central California, will use a laser that concentrates 1,000 times the electric generating power of the United States into a billionth of a second.

The result should be an explosion in the 32ft-wide reaction chamber which will produce at least 10 times the amount of energy used to create it. "

Roorooo!

I hope they get their exponents right.

It's not really new to get nuclear-fusion.
The problem always was to shield the enormeous temperature inside. At other experiments of this kind, the elektro-magnetic shields, they are used for this, need nearly rhe same energy, than the output was.
And in this article is nothing mentioned, that the problem was solved. So I'm left sceptic for the result.