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US Scientists Repeat Fusion Power Breakthrough For a Second Time

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US government scientists have achieved net energy gain in a fusion reaction for the second time, a result that is set to fuel optimism that progress is being made towards the dream of limitless, zero-carbon power.

Physicists have since the 1950s sought to harness the fusion reaction that powers the sun, but until December no group had been able to produce more energy from the reaction than it consumes — a condition also known as ignition.

A nuclear fusion research reactor in Germany. Scientists across the globe are racing to develop nuclear fusion energy. AP

Researchers at the federal Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, who achieved ignition for the first time last year, repeated the breakthrough in an experiment on July 30 that produced a higher energy output than in December, according to three people with knowledge of the preliminary results.

The laboratory confirmed that energy gain had been achieved again at its laser facility, adding that analysis of the results was underway.

“Since demonstrating fusion ignition for the first time at the National Ignition Facility in December 2022, we have continued to perform experiments to study this exciting new scientific regime. In an experiment conducted on July 30, we repeated ignition at NIF,” it said. “As is our standard practice, we plan on reporting those results at upcoming scientific conferences and in peer-reviewed publications.”

Fusion is achieved by heating two hydrogen isotopes — usually deuterium and tritium — to such extreme temperatures that the atomic nuclei fuse, releasing helium and vast amounts of energy in the form of neutrons.

Although many scientists believe fusion power stations are still decades away, the technology’s potential is hard to ignore. Fusion reactions emit no carbon, produce no long-lived radioactive waste and a small cup of hydrogen fuel could theoretically power a house for hundreds of years.

The most widely studied approach, known as magnetic confinement, uses huge magnets to hold the fuel in place while it is heated to temperatures hotter than the sun.

The NIF uses a different process, called inertial confinement, in which it fires the world’s largest laser at a tiny capsule of the fuel triggering an implosion.

US energy secretary Jennifer Granholm in December described the achievement of ignition as “one of the most impressive science feats of the 21st century”. In that experiment, the reaction produced about 3.15 megajoules, which was about 150 per cent of the 2.05MJ in the lasers.

Initial data from the July experiment indicated an energy output greater than 3.5MJ, two of the people with knowledge of the preliminary results said. That energy would be roughly sufficient to power a household iron for an hour.

Achieving net energy gain has been seen for decades as a crucial step in proving that commercial fusion power stations are possible. However, there are still several hurdles to overcome.

Energy gain in this context only compares the energy generated to the energy in the lasers, not to the total amount of energy pulled off the grid to power the system, which is much higher. Scientists estimate that commercial fusion will require reactions that generate between 30 and 100 times the energy in the lasers.

The NIF also makes a maximum of one shot a day, whereas an internal confinement power plant would probably need to complete several shots a second.

However, the improved result at NIF, coming “only eight months” after the initial breakthrough, was a further sign that the pace of progress was increasing, said one of the people with knowledge of the results.

Financial Times



249 Comments on "US Scientists Repeat Fusion Power Breakthrough For a Second Time"

  1. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 8:49 am 

    Death to all from GOD and I,

  2. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 8:50 am 

    Death to all from god and i

  3. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 8:59 am 

    I told you I will make you pay dearly for the creation of the Jews and Israel. I am talking to you UK and the rest of the world.

  4. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 9:01 am 

    Death to all the Jews, Canadian and Québecers of the world. Death to all.

  5. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 9:12 am 

    Yesterday you made a video with the Canadian minister of transportation with heavy machineries in the background because I made a comment about heavy machinery.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9SBYQmkDuM

    You will make a video about Whites extermination all the jews because this is what I really want.

    I guess we share nothing in common whore. You are never there when I need help.

  6. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 9:17 am 

    I want you to make a video from a gouvernemental official openly saying that he support the exterminate of all the JEWS of the planet. IF you cannot do what I ask you, stop making video with elements that match the content of my comments. We have nothing in commong go fuck yoursel.

  7. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 9:25 am 

    I am coming straight on for you, for all the inhabitants for earth, i ma coming straight on for all of you.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m8nsEiAHiM

  8. supremacist muzzies Ramadan Bombathon 2023 Final Score Attacks 145 Kills 741 on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 10:14 am 

    ANAL PROLAPSE CAPTURE SHOCK

  9. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 11:31 am 

    You should have really killed the Jews when I asked you. I am just trolling the whole planet now and fucking with you. I have no intentions of helping you in any shape or forms. I am trolling and playing with the whole fucking world just for my personal amusement. You mean nothing to me.

    You should have killed all the Jews of the world when I asked. I move on to another project, trolling the whole world from my computer screen, not bad as a form of entertainment.

  10. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 11:36 am 

    The whole world has become my personal entertainment. Go ahead let’s play the death game.

  11. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 11:40 am 

    One way or another I win all the way. The best case, I die and get eternal death, that will be the ultimate price for me or I leave earth with a new body and start a news life somewhere else.

    I have nothing to lose. You lost everything by not killing all the Jews of the planet when I asked you. I win no matter what, you lose no matter what.

  12. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 11:47 am 

    You are trolling me with you video on YouTube, I will troll you with comments that I write on this website. Once I am done trolling the whole world, nobody will ever trust me again.

    You should have killed all the Jews when I asked you and not questioned my reasons.

  13. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 11:55 am 

    Once you closed permanently this website, I will know that I won and you have lost faith and trust in me. Go ahead close this website so I know that will never trust me again like I will never trust again, you got that bitch.

  14. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 12:00 pm 

    No matter how this simulation finished, I win. I win not matter the outcome is. You lose no matter that the outcome is. You lose all the way.

  15. supremacist muzzies Ramadan Bombathon 2023 Final Score Attacks 145 Kills 741 on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 12:01 pm 

    i new some wrong when a pretty little white girl ran to a black mans arms dead giveaway

    deaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadddddddddddddd giveaway

    my neighbor got big testicles cuz i see this due everyday we ate riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiibbbbbbbbbbbbbs with this due and dint have a clue

  16. get that girl out of that house she simply have to get out so i open the door cant get in that way my body cant fit in the door only your hands on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 12:03 pm 

    supremacist muzzies Ramadan Bombathon 2023 Final Score Attacks 145 Kills 741

    ANAL PROLAPSE CAPTURE SHOCK

  17. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 12:05 pm 

    I am the only winner of this earthly simulation, I have already won, you have already lost by not killing all the Jews of the planet when I asked.

  18. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 12:06 pm 

    I have won already. You have already lost. I am just trolling the whole planet earth for my personal entertainment.

  19. I won on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 12:14 pm 

    I don’t have to do anything. I can sit on my ass for the rest of my life and I will still win. You have lost, there is nothing you can do. You will all die.

  20. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 12:45 pm 

    I have already won. The whole earth has already lost against me. It will get more and more obvious as time go by that I won anyway this thing ends and you lose anyway this thing ends.

  21. i love cats i love every kind of cats i just want to hugs them cats but i can’t hugs all cats. so anyways im a cat lover and i love to run sorry im being emotional im thinking about cats again on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 12:59 pm 

    supremacist muzzies Ramadan Bombathon 2023 Final Score Attacks 145 Kills 741

    ANAL PROLAPSE CAPTURE SHOCK

  22. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 12:59 pm 

    It will become more and more obvious as time go by that the whole population of earth is being executed by GOD and I.

  23. oh my goodness oh my dayme burger going ham you know the differnce between a weak burger and a burger that has strength and bite the fries and the fries bite back my man daym daym daymm on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 2:02 pm 

    supremacist muzzies Ramadan Bombathon 2023 Final Score Attacks 145 Kills 741

    ANAL PROLAPSE CAPTURE SHOCK

  24. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 2:34 pm 

    For over sixty years, the Smith–Mundt Act prohibited the U.S. Department of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) from disseminating government-produced programming within the United States over fears that these agencies would “propagandize” the American people. However, in 2013, Congress abolished the domestic dissemination ban, which has led to a heated debate about the role of the federal government in free public discourse.

    America Politicians voted for the law above, I guess Israel was on it also. Americans Politicians always willing to humiliate themself by sucking Israel dick and taking brides for Israel lobbies operating in the US.

    So you knew you were about to manipulate me using the media, YouTube and the internet. I guess you did change the law to have a conscience clean.

    YOu will be dealt with when your time comes.

  25. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 2:38 pm 

    I set up a meeting in a park so you could identify yourself to me to avoid trust problems latter down the line. You send nobody to meet me and identify yourself Everything that is happening up to now is your fault not mine.

  26. ANAL CAPTURE SHOCK i love cats i love every kind of cats i just want to hugs them cats but i can't hugs all cats. so anyways im a cat lover and i love to run sorry im being emotional im thinking about cats again on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 2:39 pm 

    guess what happens when elite master race chink supertards r sick of supremacist muzzies

    Ramadan Bombathon 2020 Final Score 175 Kills 718

    Ramadan Bombathon 2021 Final Score Attacks 222 Kills 1103

  27. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 2:59 pm 

    You should have killed the Jews of the world when I asked;

  28. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 3:00 pm 

    You should have killed all the Jews of the world when I asked as a proof that you want to build something new and know who your really ennemis are.

  29. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 3:20 pm 

    I have already won, you have already lost. If there is one thing you should remember is this: I have already won, you (the whole population of earth) have already

  30. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 3:28 pm 

    I have already won, you have already lost, Should have killed all the Jews of the world when I asked, I guess you love losing.

  31. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 3:30 pm 

    I have already won, you have already lost. GOD and I will kill all the population of earth with extreme violence, just wait and watch.

  32. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 3:37 pm 

    I have already won, either I get eternal death or I leave earth. I have won. You lost all the way down.e

  33. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 3:44 pm 

    You have already lost, you just don’t know it yet

  34. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 3:51 pm 

    I love trolling the whole world. It is the best of entertained a man could never dream of.

    How fingers can you put on a whore ass before she complain of acute pain:1,2,3 or the fist.

    I will fuck with all of you, like you fuck with me in my real life.

  35. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 3:52 pm 

    I love trolling the whole world. It is the best form of entertainment a man could never dream of.

    How many fingers can you put in a whore ass hole before she complain of acute pain:1,2,3 or the fist.

    I will fuck with all of you, like you fuck with me in my real life.

  36. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 3:57 pm 

    You have already lost, I have already won.

  37. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 4:13 pm 

    You should have killed all the Jews of the earth when I asked for it. Stupid dumb mother fucker. I won, you lost. How do you like my trolling, Are you still continue to bother me in my real life, fucking piece of shit.

  38. eeee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 4:21 pm 

    I know how to troll the world:

    Who smell the worst, the negro, arab or the asian. all of them they all look smelly and greasy.

  39. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 4:24 pm 

    where are my dead jews. If I drive to Montreal in the Jewish neighborhood, will I find death Jewsl This is really important question for me.

    Keep fucking with me in my personal life, I dont care, I have already won.

  40. ee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 4:28 pm 

    You know that if you don:t like my attitude and comments, you can close this website or banned. Whatever you prefer whore. My new style useless comments with no useful information

  41. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 7:06 pm 

    I thought I was about to leave planet earth not long ago. I became dizzy and had the feeling I was about to lift up and leave earth.

    I have already won, you have already lost.

    You should have killed all the Jews of the earth when I asked.

  42. TMFINR on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 7:23 pm 

    guess what happens when elite master race chink supertards r sick of supremacist muzzies

    Ramadan Bombathon 2020 Final Score 175 Kills 718

    Ramadan Bombathon 2021 Final Score Attacks 222 Kills 1103

  43. TMFINR on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 8:52 pm 

    i new some wrong when a pretty little white girl ran to a black mans arms dead giveaway

    deaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadddddddddddddd giveaway

    my neighbor got big testicles cuz i see this due everyday we ate riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiibbbbbbbbbbbbbs with this due and dint have a clue

  44. TMFINR on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 9:21 pm 

    hello this is debbie this is my first attempt at eHarmony so im going to tell you what i like

    i love cats i love every kind of cats i just want to hugs them cats but i can’t hugs all cats. so anyways im a cat lover and i love to run sorry im being emotional im thinking about cats again

  45. TMFINR Ramadan Bombathon 2021 Final Score Attacks 222 Kills 1103 TMFINR on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 9:24 pm 

    guess what happens when elite darkie supertard sohrab lutchmedial MUZZ-19 himself with reckless abandonment

    SAINT PETERS

    ANAL PROLAPSE CAPTURE SHOCK

  46. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 10:05 pm 

    You should have killed all the Jews of the world when I asked.

  47. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 10:11 pm 

    You should have killed Blinken and all the Jews of the world when I asked. Russia is not the enemy of the world, Israel is the enemy of the world. Making another strategic mistake going to war against Russia. You should have gone to war against Israel. You everything you do, you fuck up. The enemy is Israel not Russia.

  48. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 10:13 pm 

    Once again you fighting the wrong enemy. The real enemy is Israel not Russia. You fucking BS theater is tiring.

  49. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 10:27 pm 

    American politicians, always willing to eat Jewish shit and take Jewish money bribe to stay in power. You want to bet the world is fighting a war against Russian that will end up benefitting Israel first and foremost. Earth is hopeless. You are too stupid to be keep alive.

    I am a American politician, look at me eating Jewish shit for lunch and I am proud of it.

  50. eee on Thu, 10th Aug 2023 10:30 pm 

    How many of you have fucked a bitch in the ass??

    Is it gay to fuck a real bitch with a vagina in the ass?

    These are important question we should all answer.

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