The US National Ignition Facility is expected to announce that it has achieved a nuclear fusion reaction with more energy coming out than put in, but does this mean all our power generating problems are now solved?
We have been trying to harness the reaction that powers the stars for decades, and now private firms are promising commercial fusion within a decade.
Is there any reason to believe them this time?A sustained, stable experiment is the latest demonstration that nuclear fusion is moving from being a physics problem to an engineering oneA 2021 experiment achieved the landmark milestone of nuclear fusion ignition, which data analysis has now confirmed – but attempts to recreate it over the last year haven’t been able to reach ignition againThe EuroFusion consortium hopes its DEMOnstration Power Plant will take fusion power from the lab to...
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