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Dec 12, 2022

Breakthrough fusion power announcement expected tomorrow. Here’s what it means

Posted by in categories: government, nuclear energy

Overnight, news broke that the National Ignition Facility, a U.S. government research lab, was the first to achieve net-positive nuclear fusion. When lasers hit the tiny fuel pellet, it created an explosion that released more energy than the lasers delivered.

For decades, fusion power has been just around the corner. Is this the moment we’ve all been waiting for?

Maybe.

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