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1:00Now PlayingNuclear scientist explains why the fusion experiment was successful | USA TODAY #Shorts
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1:00Now PlayingNNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs Marv Adams used a prop cylinder to explain what happened in a breakthrough nuclear fusion experiment that could pave the way for the future of clean energy.
RELATEDFusion energy breakthrough could lead to clean, carbonfree power
California scientists have achieved a major advance in fusion energy, a technology that could potentially provide clean, carbon-free power in years to come, the Department of Energy announced Tuesday.
The breakthrough was made at 1:03 a.m. on Dec. 5 at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility, 50 miles east of San Francisco. The work uses giant lasers to create heat and pressure like those found inside a star, enough to drive atoms together, releasing tremendous energy.
The advance described Tuesday was that researchers have been able to create more energy in the process than they put into it, what's known as "ignition." In a news conference, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm described it as a "fusion breakthrough" that "will go down in the history books."
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