This illustration depicts a target pellet inside a hohlraum capsule with laser beams entering through openings on either end. The beams compress and heat the target to the necessary conditions for nuclear fusion to occur.
The achievement will pave the way for advancements in national defense and the future of clean power, Granholm and other officials said. Kim Budil, director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, discusses a major scientific breakthrough in fusion research that was made at the lab in California, during a news conference at the Department of Energy in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022.
Fusion works by pressing hydrogen atoms into each other with such force that they combine into helium, releasing enormous amounts of energy and heat. Unlike other nuclear reactions, it doesn’t create radioactive waste. Riccardo Betti, a professor at the University of Rochester and expert in laser fusion, said an announcement that net energy had been gained in a fusion reaction would be significant. But he said there’s a long road ahead before the result generates sustainable electricity.
The net energy gain achievement applied to the fusion reaction itself, not the total amount of power it took to operate the lasers and run the project. For fusion to be viable, it will need to produce significantly more power and for longer.
From here on out we call it Elemental Energy? The words nuclear and atomic are too historically charged.
Per Aspera Ad Astra I’d recommend watching the new series of The Man Who Fell to Earth this week to compliment this news. ;)
Energy Energy Latest News, Energy Energy Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: verge - 🏆 94. / 67 Read more »
Source: KSLcom - 🏆 549. / 51 Read more »
Source: YahooNews - 🏆 380. / 59 Read more »
Source: wjxt4 - 🏆 246. / 63 Read more »