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US scientists repeat fusion power breakthrough
- ashconnor 3y ago> 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.
- 1letterunixname 3y agohttps://archive.is/GOQbC https://archive.is/GOQbC
- 1letterunixname 3y agoLLNL NIF has been pursuing grand experiment, big $$$ laser-ignited inertial confinement fusion for decades, milking US taxpayers without much to show for it. They need to scale energies by many orders of magnitude, gain in excess of 30, and rapidly repeat shots to get anything close to commercially viable. LLNL's NIF's rumored secondary aspirational purposes are giant lasers for nuclear arms research and developing a pure fusion weapon. "A simplified economic model for inertial fusion" https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2020.0053 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2020.005...