Don’t Wait Up for Nuclear Fusion
Scientists have achieved a net energy gain in a fusion reaction for the first time, but are still a long way off from creating a commercial technology.
The National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
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It’s not every day that the world can announce the arrival of a brand new way of generating electricity, but today is one of those days.