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American scientists have announced what they have called a major breakthrough in a long-elusive goal of creating energy from nuclear fusion. U.S. Department of Energy/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory The technique used at the National Ignition Facility involved shooting 192 lasers at a 0.04 inch pellet of fuel made of deuterium and tritium – two versions of the element hydrogen with …
Scientists have revised a fundamental law “foundational” to fusion energy research that could allow for more hydrogen fuel in reactors, and potentially help obtain more energy from fusion than previously thought. “In order to create plasma for fusion, you have to consider three things: high temperature, high density of hydrogen fuel, and good confinement,” Paolo Ricci, a co-author of the …
