What to know about DOE’s fusion milestone
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Photo caption: DOE’s achievement of a “net gain” of energy in the lab gives another boost of confidence to a growing corps of fusion entrepreneurs and researchers. Photo credit: Evan Vucci / AP Photo. Article by Peter Behr. Politico – updated December 13, 2022.
The Department of Energy announced Tuesday that its scientists have produced the first ever fusion reaction that yielded more energy than the reaction required, an essential step in the long path toward commercial fusion power, officials said. The experiment Dec. 5, at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, took a few billionths of second. But laboratory leaders said today that it demonstrated for the first time that sustained fusion power is possible. […]
