Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough: Decades More Research Still Needed
Imagine waiting a lifetime for an idea to become a reality, and then it is over in 100 trillionths of a second. That’s exactly what happened to a group of scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California at 1:03 a.m. on December 5, 2022, when 192 giant lasers blasted a tiny cylinder of hydrogen and achieved an energy gain known as ignition, a major breakthrough in nuclear fusion.
