by admin | Jan 8, 2023 | Energy, News, nuclear, nuclear fusion, Other Tech News, Science, The Conversation
Researchers in the US have finally fulfilled an objective that was set decades ago: the achievement of “ignition” – getting more energy out than you put in – using nuclear fusion. The scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition...
by admin | Jan 2, 2023 | Energy, News, nuclear fusion, Other Tech News, The Conversation, US
American scientists have announced what they have called a major breakthrough in a long-elusive goal of creating energy from nuclear fusion. The U.S. Department of Energy said on Dec. 13, 2022, that for the first time – and after several decades of trying – scientists...
by admin | Dec 27, 2022 | News, nuclear energy, nuclear fusion, Other Tech News, Science, The Conversation
Nuclear fusion holds huge promise as a source of clean, abundant energy that could power the world. Now, fusion researchers at a national laboratory in the US have achieved something physicists have been working towards for decades, a process known as “ignition”. This...
by admin | Dec 17, 2022 | Energy, News, nuclear, nuclear fusion, Other Tech News, Science, The Conversation
For the first time, scientists in the US have confirmed a fusion energy experiment achieved net gain. This means releasing more energy than it takes to initiate, demonstrating the physical basis for producing fusion energy in a controlled way. This historic feat took...
by admin | Dec 8, 2022 | Energy, News, nuclear fusion, Other Tech News, Science, The Conversation
Our society faces the grand challenge of providing sustainable, secure and affordable means of generating energy, while trying to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to net zero around 2050. To date, developments in fusion power, which potentially ticks all these boxes,...