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Scientists achieve world-changing nuclear fusion breakthrough — twice
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August 7, 2023
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1:21Now PlayingAmerican scientists have for the first time managed to reach — and then improve on — a longtime goal of nuclear research.
Twice in under a year, researchers at California’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have managed to trigger a fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, or producing more power than was used to fuel the experiment.
Their accomplishment represents an unprecedented “ignition” of the zero-carbon energy source that physicists have been trying to tap into since World War II.
As a power source, nuclear fusion far surpasses its controversial counterpart, nuclear fission. The latter produces as a byproduct dangerous waste that lingers for thousands of years.
The US Department of Energy described the laboratory’s work as “a major scientific breakthrough decades in the making.”
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