A so-called 'net energy gain' is a major milestone in a decades-long attempt to source clean, limitless energy from nuclear fusion – the reaction that happens when two or more atoms are fused together. 9News
A so-called "net energy gain" is a major milestone in a decades-long attempt to source clean, limitless energy from nuclear fusion – the reaction that happens when two or more atoms are fused together.US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm called the breakthrough a "landmark achievement" in a statement.
The breakthrough was made by a team of scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility in California on December 5 "Crossing this threshold is the vision that has driven 60 years of dedicated pursuit. These are the problems that the US national laboratories were created to solve."We are still a very long way from having nuclear fusion power the electric grid, never mind one power plant itself.
A so-called "net energy gain" is a major milestone in a decades-long attempt to source clean, limitless energy from nuclear fusion. There's still many years and a long way to go to make the project commercially viable. Neither the US or UK-based projects "have the hardware and steps in place to convert fusion neutrons to electricity," Anne White, head of MIT's Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, told CNN.
Whereas fusion fuses two or more atoms together, fission is the opposite; it is the process of splitting a larger atom into two or more smaller ones. Nuclear fission is the kind of energy that powers nuclear reactors around the world today. Like fusion, the heat created from splitting atoms is also used to generate energy.
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