Seemed like this article in Nature did pretty good. They explicitly said: “I don't want to give you a sense that we're going to plug the NIF into the grid: tha

Seemed like this article in Nature did pretty good. They explicitly said: “I don't want to give you a sense that we're going to plug the NIF into the grid: that is definitely not how this works,” and “Although positive news, this result is still a long way from the actual energy gain required for the production of electricity,” said Tony Roulstone, a nuclear-energy researcher at the University of Cambridge, UK, in a statement to the Science Media Centre. Still, “the NIF experiments focused on fusion energy absolutely are valuable on the path to commercial fusion power”, says Anne White, a plasma physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. There is a pretty solid disconnect between the public's perception of how science works and happens and how it does. For this to really matter, someone else needs to duplicate the experiment and verify the data. It's a huge win if the hype can lead to that.