The greatest breakthrough in nuclear fusion yet!

(This is a nuclear fusion plant)

Nuclear fusion works by pushing atoms together, producing energy, and therefore, heat that boils water and the steam spins turbines.

Researchers have been trying to achieve this since the 1950s and have not been able to make a positive energy gain known as ignition. But now at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, where, by using 2.1 MJ (a Mega joule (1million)) of energy to fuel the lasers and achieved 2.5 MJ with the fusion. Before this no one is known to have done this, therefore, making this an incredible event.

Before this there has never been a nuclear fusion that successfully has produced energy that is more than the energy used to cause the reaction.

Sources:

Amos, Jonathan. “Major Breakthrough on Nuclear Fusion Energy.” BBC News, BBC, 9 Feb. 2022, www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60312633.