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Instead of using cobalt or other radioactive materials, Wilson’s team uses an X-ray machine to irradiate the pests.

In practice, however, this is of little use -- after all, it would be tedious to repeatedly irradiate the wall with intense UV light in order to drive the self-cleaning process.

The NIF used indirect drive to irradiate a capsule with X-rays using about 2,000 kilojoules of laser energy.

As soon as the salts in the liquid have accumulated to a significant degree, the researchers irradiate the liquid with light.

"First, we irradiate the alloy with a strong laser pulse, which magnetizes the material," explains Theo Pflug.