Fusion power breakthrough repeated in California lab for second time
HMAS Havoc’s fusion stacks are getting that little bit closer.
Livermore, California: US scientists have achieved net energy gain in a fusion reaction for the second time since December last year, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory said on Sunday.
Scientists at the California-based lab repeated the breakthrough in an experiment in the National Ignition Facility (NIF) on July 30 that produced a higher energy yield than in December, a Lawrence Livermore spokesperson said.
Well, not really. It took many times as much energy into the system as came out (they are comparing the *output* of the lasers to the output of the reaction, the lasers are only a few % efficient), and the reaction lasts for a few ms.
This is a nuclear weapon simulator, not a power reactor, there’s no realistic path from it to one.
About FKN time!