The One Thing Everyone’s Ignoring About the Fusion Energy Breakthrough

Dec 14 2022 by The Daily Beast

 
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

At 1:00 a.m. Pacific Time on Dec. 5, 2022, the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California created nuclear fusion without thermonuclear detonation. The experiment, heralded in the Department of Energy’s own release as history-making and announced Tuesday by Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, converted 2.05 megajoules of laser energy into 3.15...

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