Which instability grows when fusion fuel density drops?

💡 Explanation

Lower density increases the Rayleigh-Taylor instability during inertial confinement fusion, because the pressure gradient opposes acceleration, therefore turbulent mixing increases and fusion decreases, rather than parametric decay or beta limit instability taking over.

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