Nuclear fusion breakthrough as ‘ignition’ finally achieved - The Independent

Three new studies celebrate a 2021 fusion power breakthrough, but controversy remains around replicating the findings.

On 8 August, 2021, 192 laser beams pumped vastly more power than the entire US electric grid into a small gold capsule and ignited, for a faction of a second, the same thermonuclear fire that powers … [+4277 chars]

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