Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scientists have managed to repeatedly produce nuclear fusion ignition for the first time, …
Scientists at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California on Tuesday revealed that they have achieved fusion ignition, which means the fusion procedure produced more energy than it consumed. Nuclear fusion and nuclear fission are two different types of nuclear reactions that release energy. Nuclear fusion reactions release much more energy than nuclear fission reactions. …
