{"id":28324,"date":"2022-12-15T10:17:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T10:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=28324"},"modified":"2024-09-12T12:08:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T11:08:35","slug":"landmark-fusion-energy-results-spark-the-nuclear-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/landmark-fusion-energy-results-spark-the-nuclear-revolution\/28324\/","title":{"rendered":"Landmark fusion energy results spark the nuclear revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"
The NIF is an experimental facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), which has now produced 3.15 megajoules of energy in its latest fusion energy experiment, greatly surpassing NIF\u2019s previous record set in August 2021. The experimental result demonstrated for the first time that a controlled fusion reaction could release more energy than was applied by the lasers, generating about 150% of the 2.1 megajoules of energy in the lasers.<\/p>\n
Dr Kim Budil, the Director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, commented: \u201cThe pursuit of fusion ignition in the laboratory is one of the most significant scientific challenges ever tackled by humanity, and achieving it is a triumph of science, engineering, and most of all, people.<\/p>\n
\u201cCrossing this threshold is the vision that has driven 60 years of dedicated pursuit \u2014 a continual process of learning, building, expanding knowledge and capability, and then finding ways to overcome the new challenges that emerged. These are the problems that the US national laboratories were created to solve.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fusion is the energy that powers the Sun. When atoms reach extreme temperatures and pressures, they collide and \u2018fuse\u2019. This releases enormous amounts of energy in the process \u2013 as demonstrated in Einstein\u2019s famous E=MC2<\/sup> equation. This means that even small amounts of fuel have a huge amount of intrinsic energy, which fusion can release.<\/p>\n