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From: The Financial Times > Energy Sector
Fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes
Net energy gain indicates technology could provide an abundant zero-carbon alternative to fossil fuels
Tom Wilson in London YESTERDAY (11 December 2022)
US government scientists have made a breakthrough in the pursuit of limitless, zero-carbon power by achieving a net energy gain in a fusion reaction for the first time, according to three people with knowledge of preliminary results from a recent experiment.
Physicists have since the 1950s sought to harness the fusion reaction that powers the sun, but no group had been able to produce more energy from the reaction than it consumes — a milestone known as net energy gain or target gain, which would help prove the process could provide a reliable, abundant alternative to fossil fuels and conventional nuclear energy.
The federal Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, which uses a process called inertial confinement fusion that involves bombarding a tiny pellet of hydrogen plasma with the world’s biggest laser, had achieved net energy gain in a fusion experiment in the past two weeks, the people said. ...
Read more (skipping the firewall) at: U.S. expected to announce major nuclear fusion energy breakthrough