Fusion power offers a clean, virtually limitless energy source of the future. Now, scientists at the Joint European Torus (JET), operated by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the EUROfusion consortium, have made a groundbreaking discovery that brings us one step closer to unlocking the incredible...
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 Facility (NIF), where the experiment took place,...
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 step involves getting more energy...