On August 8th in 2021, scientists at the California NIF lab were able to create a fusion reaction. The National Ignition Facilities fusion reactor achieved a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules.
Instead of the usual tokamak reactor, the NIF contains an enormous laser, powerful enough to heat atoms into the plasma state.
The facility precisely guides, amplifies, reflects and focuses 192 powerful laser beams into a target about the size of a pencil eraser in a few billionths of a second, delivering more than 5 trillion watts of peak power.
Fusion energy holds great promise for humankind to produce large quantities of clean energy.
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For a fraction of a second
on an August day in 2021,
scientists at the California NIF lab
were able to create a fusion reaction.
The fusion reactor achieved a yield of more than 1.3 mega joules.
The National Ignition Facility is about the size of three football fields.
Instead of the usual tokamak reactor, the NIF contains an enormous laser, powerful enough to heat atoms into the plasma state.
The facility precisely guides, amplifies, reflects and focuses 192 powerful laser beams into a target about the size of a pencil eraser in a few billionths of a second,
delivering more than 5 trillion watts of peak power.
This advancement may bring the team closer to fusion ignition,
the point at which a nuclear fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining.
Fusion energy holds great promise for humankind to produce large quantities of clean energy.
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