Nuclear Fusion, a Perpetually Distant Dream, Moves Closer to Reality
The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory made a record-breaking laser shot on July 5, 2012. The NIF laser system of 192 beams delivered more than 500 trillion watts of peak power and 1.85 megajoules of ultraviolet laser light to its target. National Nuclear Security Administration/CC BY-ND 2.0

Nuclear Fusion, a Perpetually Distant Dream, Moves Closer to Reality

‘Fusion is the most technologically challenging approach to making energy that mankind has ever attempted,’ physicist Robert Fedosejevs said.
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Generating nearly limitless, clean, carbon-free energy from nuclear fusion—a vision that seems to be perpetually out of reach—has taken major steps in the past several years toward becoming a reality.

On the heels of major recent breakthroughs in physics labs in generating nuclear fusion, the quest has now expanded into the private sector, where a proliferation of startup companies are racing to make the process commercially viable—and profitable.

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