Fusion Breakthrough or Hyperbole? – The New American

On December 13, 2022, physicists at the U.S. government-funded National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California announced that for the first time a powerful fusion reactor had briefly generated more energy than was put into it. They were able to fire a laser carrying roughly two megajoules of energy into a … By Jeffrey Mahn